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MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 28
Event-Related Menus and Options
Event Log continued
Accessing the log,
continued
FTP. The event.txt file is a text version of the Management Card’s event
log.
• It is tab-delimited so that it can be imported into any spread-
sheet application.
• It reports as many as
5000
events that occurred since the log
was last deleted.
• It includes information that is not displayed in the Management
Card’s event log as displayed by the Web interface and control
console.
– The version of the event.txt file format (first field).
– The
Date and Time the event.txt file was retrieved.
Note: You may need to select a
four
-digit date format in
your spreadsheet application to display all four digits
of the year.
– The
Name, Contact, Location, and IP address of the Man-
agement Card.
– The unique
Event Code for every type of event.
To use FTP to retrieve the event.txt file, do the following:
1. At a command prompt, type ftp and the
IP
address of the
Management Card, and press E
NTER
.
ftp 159.215.12.114
2. Log on.
Note: Case-sensitive
User Name and Password settings (apc
by default for both) protect
FTP
access. On the Network
menu, use the
FTP option in the control console or the
TFTP & FTP option in the Web interface to change these
settings.
3. Use the get command to transmit the text-version of the
Management Card’s event log to your local drive.
ftp>get event.txt
To clear all events from the log, use the del command. A new event.txt
file is created immediately to record the Deleted Log event.
ftp>del event.txt
250 Requested file action okay, completed.
ftp>
To exit from
FTP
, type quit.