DS2 Docking Station
The Journal Feature
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The Journal Feature
Chapter
10
10.1. Introduction
The Journal provides a history of when the Global and Special events ran in your Docking
Station Network. The Journal records events that ran successfully and unsuccessfully.
The Journal tracks only the last occurrence of each event for each IDS or instrument. When an
event occurs again for an instrument or IDS, the old entry is overwritten. For example, if
Instrument X was last calibrated on 8/01/06, the Journal contains this data. When the next
calibration occurs on 9/01/06, the journal entry for 8/01/06 is replaced with the new entry for
9/01/06.
Journal entries are overwritten based upon the event’s ID. It is possible to see multiple journal
entries for the same type of event for an instrument if it occurred as a result of different events.
For example, if an instrument calibrates under the global event, and then it is assigned to a
special calibration event, journal entries will exist for both the global event and the special event.
10.2. Viewing Journal Entries
You can view Journal entries for your entire Docking Station Network or for an individual event.
Journal entries are created for all of the global and special events, and the two system events,
“Settings Update” and “Settings Read.” To view all Journal entries, follow the instructions listed
below.
Step Instruction
1.
Open the DSSAC application.
2.
Expand the Events option in the navigation pane, if necessary.
3.
Click on Journal.
4.
The Journal entries appear in the contents pane. For each entry, the following
information displays: the Date/Time at which the event occurred, the Serial Number
of the instrument or IDS for which the event ran, and the Type of event (e.g., Bump
Test, Calibration, Diagnostics) that ran.
NOTE:
Journal entries that appear in blue text represent instruments that are currently docked,
or IDSs that are currently running on the network.
