Tripp Lite B022-U08-IP Owner's Manual for B022-U08-IP 1U Rack KVM Switch 93327 - Page 55

7. Administration (continued) 7.4 Log Server (continued) 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: Maintenance This function allows the Administrator to remove all records that have passed their expiration limit. 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. A description of the items from the Search screen is given in the table: Item Search Options Server List Priority List Start Date Start Time End Date End Time Pattern Results Search Print Export Exit Description New search: When selected, the search is performed on 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 selected KVM excluding the events that resulted from the last search. 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. 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 colorcoded 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. Select the date that you want the search to start from. The format follows the MM/DD/YYYY convention (e.g. 11/04/2012). Select the time that you want the search to start from. Select the date that you want the search to end. The format follows the MM/DD/YYYY convention (e.g. 11/04/2012). Select the time that you want the search to end. Key in text here that you want the search to filter the events by. The events that matched your search terms are listed here. After you have entered in all of your search terms, click this button to start the search. Click this button to print the search results. Click this button to export search results as a text file. Click this button to exit the Search dialog box. 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. 55