Using The Find Utility; Using Log Id Number; Filtering Log Entries By Event And Time; Setting A Category Filter - Juniper NETWORK AND SECURITY MANAGER 2010.2 - ADMINISTRATION GUIDE REV1 Administration Manual

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Filtering Log Entries by Event and Time

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Using the Find Utility

Use the Find utility to search for the next iteration (down) of a value in the Log Viewer.
To use Find on a column or cell, right-click the column header or cell and select Find,
then configure the search criteria. Select Negate to search for all log entries that do not
contain the specified value.

Using Log ID Number

When you know the log ID number for the log entry, you can jump directly to the log entry.
To locate a log entry by log ID number, from the Edit menu, select Go To Log ID. In the
Go To Log ID dialog box, enter the log ID number, and click OK. The Log Viewer jumps to
the specified log ID and highlights the log entry in the main display area.
An event-based or time-based filter is a criteria search for matching log entries. When
you apply a filter to log entries, the Log Viewer filters out log entries that do not match
the filter criteria. You can set multiple filters on any Log Viewer column (except Log ID
and Details) or cell value.
When filtering by cell, the filter affects only the content in that cell's column. To set a
cell filter, right-click a cell and select Filter to display the filter menu options:
Edit—Use this option to set multiple filters for cell content at the same time. Select to
display the Filter dialog box for that column, then select the columns you want to filter
on.
To display only the selected content, click OK.
To display everything except the selected content, select the check box next to
Negate, then click OK.
To clear filters for the selected content, click Clear.
Only This Value—Displays only the content in the selected cell.
Not This Value—Displays everything except the content in the selected cell.
Clear Filter—Removes a current filter on the selected cell content. If no filter exists,
this option is unavailable.
Clear All Filters—Removes all filters on the current view.
When filtering by column, the filter affects all log entries. You can set an event-based
filter using any log entry column that contains event data, and a time-based filter for the
Time Generated and Time Received columns. Additionally, for all filters (cell or column),
you can enable the Negate option to match all log entries that do not contain the specified
filter criteria.
The following sections detail some common event-based and time-based filters used
to manage log entries.

Setting a Category Filter

Apply a category filter to view log entries within a specific category or subcategory.
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