Clearing an event log, Saving an event log to a file – Allied Telesis AT-S63 User Manual

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Chapter 11: Event Logs and Syslog Servers

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Section II: Advanced Operations

In addition to the information displayed in Normal mode, the Full mode
also displays additional columns in the table, as described below:

Event ID
A unique, random number assigned to each event.

Filename:Line
The AT-S63 software source file name and the line number in that
source file that produced the event.

9. Click one of the following buttons to scroll through the event log:

Last - Last page

First - First page

Next - Next page

Previous - Previous page

Close - Closes the log

To clear the current event log, go to “Clearing an Event Log” on
page 150.

Clearing an

Event Log

You can clear an event log to remove old events and start fresh. To clear
an event log, do the following:

1. From the home page, select Configuration.

The System page is displayed with the General tab selected by
default, as shown in Figure 5 on page 38.

2. Select the Event Log tab.

The Event log tab is shown in Figure 40 on page 143.

3. In the Log Settings section, click the Clear Log checkbox.

4. Click the button next to the event log you want to clear, either

Permanent or Temporary.

5. Click Apply to activate the settings on the switch.

Saving an Event

Log to a File

You can save an event log to a file to review later. The file is saved as an
ASCII file in the switch’s file system, from where you can view it or upload
it to your management workstation or a TFTP server.

To save an event log to a file, perform the following procedure:

1. From the home page, select Configuration.

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