McDATA 4500 Switch User Manual


 
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McDATA® Sphereon 4500 Fabric Switch Product Manager User Manual
Using Logs
Using Logs
The Audit, Event, Hardware, and Link Incident, and Threshold Alert
logs store up to 1000 entries each. The most recent entry displays at
the top of the log. After 1000 entries are stored, new entries overwrite
the oldest entries.
Button Function
Button function is the same for all logs:
Clear
Clicking the Clear button clears all entries in the log for all users.
A Warning dialog box displays requesting confirmation that you
want to clear all entries in the log.
Refresh
Clicking the Refresh button reads the current data and refreshes
the screen with the new display.
Close
Closes the log and displays the switch Product Manager window.
Export
Clicking the Export button on a log window displays the Save
dialog box shown in Figure 4-1 on page 4-3. Click the Home icon
to return to the files in your home directory. The folders that list in
the display area of the Save dialog box after clicking the Home icon
are those that are stored in your home directory. If you choose,
you may create a folder for your home directory and save the file
there.
To save a log file in American Standard Code for Information
Exchange (ASCII) format to a location on your systems hard
drive or to a diskette, use the following steps. You can open this
file in any desktop publisher for viewing or printing.