Table 86: Filtering System Log Messages (continued)
Your ActionFunctionField
To specify events with a specific ID, type its
partial or complete ID—for example,
TFTPD_AF_ERR.
Specifies the Event ID for which you want to display the
messages.
Allows you to type part of the ID and completes the remaining
automatically.
An event ID, also known as system log message code, uniquely
identifies a system log message. It begins with a prefix that
indicates the generating software process or library.
Event ID
To specify events with a specific description,
type a text string from the description with
regular expression.
For example, type ^Initial* to display all
messages with lines beginning with the term
Initial.
Specifies text from the description of events that you want to
display.
Allows you to use regular expression to match text from the
event description.
NOTE: The regular expression matching is case sensitive.
For more information about using regular expressions, see
“Regular Expressions” on page 158.
Text in Event
Description
To specify events generated by a process, type
the name of the process.
For example, type mgd to list all messages
generated by the management process.
Specifies the name of the process generating the events you
want to display.
To view all the processes running on your system, enter the
CLI command—show system processes.
For more information about processes, see the JUNOS Software
Installation and Upgrade Guide.
Process
To specify the time period:
■Click the box next to Start Time and
select the year, month, date, and
time—for example, 02/10/2006 11:32.
■Click the box next to End Time and
select the year, month, date, and
time—for example, 02/10/2006 3:32.
To select the current time as the start time,
select local time.
Specifies the time period in which the events you want
displayed are generated.
Displays a calendar that allows you to select the year, month,
day, and time. It also allows you to select the local time.
By default, the messages generated in the last one hour are
displayed—End Time shows the current time and Start Time
shows the time one hour before end time.
Start Time
End Time
To view a specified number of events, select
the number from the list—for example, 50.
Specifies the number of events to be displayed on the View
Events page.
By default, the View Events page displays 25 events.
Number of
Events to
Display
To apply the filter, click OK.Applies the specified filter and displays the matching
messages.
OK
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