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7. Administration
Events
The Events menu consists of two items; Search and Maintenance.
Search
Search allows you to search for events containing specific words or
strings. When you access this function, a screen similar to the one
that follows appears:
A description of the items from the Search screen is given in the
table:
Item
Description
Search
New search: When selected, the search is performed on
Options
all the events in the database for the selected KVM.
Search last results: This is a secondary search performed
on the events that resulted from the last search.
Search excluding last results: This is a secondary search
performed on all the events in the database for the select-
ed KVM excluding the events that resulted from the last
search.
Server List
KVM switches are listed in the Log Server list according to
their IP address. Select the unit that you want to perform
the search on from this list. You can select more than one
unit for the search. If no units are selected, the search is
performed on all of them.
Priority List
Determines what types of search results are displayed,
according to their level of importance to the security of the
installation; Most, Medium or Least. If nothing is selected,
all results will display, and they will be color-codes
according to level of importance:
• Most important: Entries highlighted in red are the most
relevant to the security of the installation.
• Medium importance: Entries highlighted in blue are
somewhat relevant to the security of the installation.
• Least importance: Entries highlighted in black are least
relevant to the security of the installation.
Start Date
Select the date that you want the search to start from. The
format follows the MM/DD/YYYY convention (e.g.
11/04/2005).
Start Time
Select the time that you want the search to start from.
End Date
Select the date that you want the search to end. The
format follows the MM/DD/YYYY convention (e.g.
11/04/2005).
End Time
Select the time that you want the search to end.
Pattern
Key in text here that you want the search to filter the
events by.
Results
The events that matched your search terms are listed here.
Search
After you have entered in all of your search terms, click this
button to start the search.
Print
Click this button to print the search results.
Export
Click this button to export search results as a text file.
Exit
Click this button to exit the Search dialog box.
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Maintenance
This function allows the Administrator to remove all records that have
passed their expiration limit. (See Limit on page 52 for details.) In
order to delete old files from the log server, the maintenance function
must be performed.
Options
The Options menu consists of only one function; Network Retry.
Network Retry
Network Retry allows you to set the number of seconds that the Log
Server should wait before attempting to connect in the event that the
previous connection attempt failed. When you click this item, a dialog
box appears:
Key in the desired number of seconds and click OK to finish.
Help
The Help menu consists of two options; Contents and About Log
Server.
Contents
Selecting the Contents function will bring up an online help file. The
help file contains instructions about how to setup, operate and
troubleshoot the Log Server.
About Log Server
Selecting the About Log Server option will pull up a dialog box that
gives you the version number of the Log Server.
The Log Server Main Screen
The Log Server Main Screen is divided into two main panels; an
upper (List) panel that displays all of the KVM switches that have
been added to the Log Server and a lower (Event) panel that displays
the log events for the currently selected KVM. To select a KVM from
the list, simply click on it.
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