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Chapter 8: Monitoring Events and Managing System Log Files

Table 86: Filtering System Log Messages (continued)

Field	Function
Event ID	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.
Text in Event	Specifies text from the description of events that you want to
Description	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.

Your Action

To specify events with a specific ID, type its partial or complete ID—for example, TFTPD_AF_ERR.

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.

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.
Start Time	Specifies the time period in which the events you want
	displayed are generated.
End Time
	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.

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.

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.

Number of	Specifies the number of events to be displayed on the View	To view a specified number of events, select
Events to	Events page.	the number from the list—for example, 50.
Display
	By default, the View Events page displays 25 events.
OK	Applies the specified filter and displays the matching	To apply the filter, click OK.
	messages.

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