Monitoring Tools 13-17
The display contains two frames, a navigation frame on the left and the information and configuration page on
the right.
The left frame permits you to navigate to:
■ System
■ Information: displays the router’s hardware (MAC) address, the model number and firmware version
currently installed, the current date and time, the router’s IP address, and the IPX address, if any.
■ Event History
■ “WAN Event History page” on page 13-18: displays the most recent events that the router reports for
your WAN connections.
■ “Device Event History page” on page 13-19: displays the most recent events that the router reports of
its own internal activity.
If you click any link in the left frame, that page is displayed in the right frame.
Event History pages
The Netopia R7200 records certain relevant occurrences in event histories. Event histories are useful for
diagnosing problems because they list what happened before, during, and after a problem occurs. You can view
two different event histories: one for the router’s system and one for the WAN. The Netopia R7200’s built-in
battery backup prevents loss of event history from a shutdown or reset.
The router’s event histories are structured to display the most recent events first and to make it easy to
distinguish error messages from informational messages. Error messages are prefixed with an asterisk. Both
the WAN Event History and Device Event History pages retain records of up to 128 of the most recent events.