• SOM Server: By connecting to a SOM server (e.g. a Queue Manager) it is possible to
see the log files written to the SOM server's file system.
You can select the Event Source by choosing the corresponding radio button in the Event
Source section.
6.3
Selecting the log files to work with
Since the different Isode programs write their events in their respective log files, the Event
Viewer provides a log file selector which allows only the relevant logs to be shown. To
select which log files are shown, click on the Select button in the corresponding section,
and the Log File Selector dialog is shown.
6.3.1
Selecting local log files
When selecting Local Files, the Log Directory is shown at the top of the dialog. This is
the directory where the program expects to find the log files, and it is set to
(LOGDIR)
by
default. If you want to change it, click on the Select button. If the content of the directory
has changed since the dialog was opened, you can click on the Refresh button to refresh
the content of the log table.
The log files that are available in the Log Directory are shown in the log table. Only files
that end in .log are shown.
6.3.2
Selecting log files from a SOM Server
When selecting log files from a SOM Server, the known SOM Servers are shown at the
top of the dialog in a pull down list. These are the same SOM Servers that MConsole knows
about for other views.
If you do not have a SOM Server defined, select the Switch Operations view (View
→
Live Operations
→
Switch Operations), and add a new switch by selecting Switch
→
Add.
You can connect to a SOM Server by clicking on the Connect button. If you want to close
a connection, click on the Disconnect button. If you want to change the SOM Server,
simply choose it from the pull down list and then click Connect. If the connection succeeds,
the available log files (ending in “.log”) will automatically be shown on the log file selection
table.
If the content of the SOM Server has changed since the dialog was opened, you can click
on the Refresh files button to refresh the content of the log file selection table.
6.3.3
Automatic or Manual file selection
The Log File Selector dialog gives you two ways of selecting the log files: an Automatic
and a Manual selection. If you choose the Automatic selection, then you simply have to
decide which product, type and date you want to select, and the files will be selected
automatically.
You can choose between Automatic and Manual by selecting the radio button at the top
of the dialog.
For example, if you want to review the M-Vault Event files from yesterday, check the
M-Vault product, the Event Type and the Yesterday Date options, and uncheck all other
Events
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