Monitoring Tools
The display contains two frames, a navigation frame on the left and the information and configuration page on the right.
The left frame permits you to navigate to:
■System
■Information: displays the router’s hardware (MAC) address, the model number and firmware version currently installed, the current date and time, the router’s IP address, and the IPX address, if any.
■Event History
■“WAN Event History page” on page
■“Device Event History page” on page
If you click any link in the left frame, that page is displayed in the right frame.
Event History pages
The Netopia R7200 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 R7200’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.