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Monitoring Tools 12-29
Event History pages
The Netopia R5000 Series Router records certain relevant occurrences in event histories. Event histories are useful for diagnosing problems because they list what happened before, during, and after a problem occurs. You can view two different event histories: one for the router’s system and one for the WAN. The Netopia R5000 Series Router’s
The router’s event histories are structured to display the most recent events first and to make it easy to distinguish error messages from informational messages. Error messages are prefixed with an asterisk. Both the WAN Event History and Device Event History pages retain records of up to 128 of the most recent events.
WAN Event History page
You can refresh the WAN Event History log by clicking the update this page link.