Allied Telesis AT-S63 - Manual (Page 116)

Chapter 9: Event Logs and the Syslog Client
116 Section II: Advanced Operations
Saving an Event Log to a File
To save an event log as a file in the master switch’s file system:
1. From the Configuration menu, click the System button.
2. Click the Event Log tab, shown in Figure 30 on page 106.
3. Configure the parameters in the Display Filter Settings section of the
tab to define the log events you want to save in the file. For
instructions, refer to Table 15 on page 108.
4. Select the Save Filename field and enter a name for the file. The
name can be up to 16 alphanumeric characters and must include the
extension “.log”.
5. Click the Save button. The specified events are saved to the switch’s
file system as an ASCII file.
6. To view the contents of the file, refer to “Listing the Files in Flash
Memory or on a Compact Flash Card” on page 94. To upload the file to
a TFTP server, refer to “Uploading a Configuration File or an Event
Log File” on page 104. (To upload the file using Xmodem, you have to
use a local management session.)