Events, Viewing the event log directly, Retrieving the event log using ftp – APC AP9312TH User Manual

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Environmental Monitoring Unit: User’s Guide

10

Menu Items

Events

Viewing the Event
Log directly

The Event Log displays information for the Environmental Monitoring
Unit’s last 300 events.

To view the Event Log, select the

Log

option of the

Events

menu in the

Web interface or press

C

TRL

+ L

in the Control Console.

Retrieving the
Event Log using
FTP

To retrieve the Event Log using client side FTP:

1. From an MS-DOS prompt, type

ftp card-ip

, where

card-ip

is the IP address of the Environmental Monitoring

Unit.

2. Log in to the unit's FTP server

3. type

dir

to list files.

4. To retrieve the Event Log, type

get event.txt

. The

Environmental Monitoring Unit transmits the Event Log, which
includes at least the last 300 events, to your local drive. A
confirming message simiar to the following is displayed.

ftp: 3694 bytes received in 0.11 Seconds
33.58Kbytes/sec.

Viewing the
event.txt file

You can use a spreadsheet program to view the

event.txt

file. The file is

TAB-delimited to appear in columns in the spreadsheet.

Note:

To display the year in 4-digit format in the spreadsheet, be sure
to select that date format in the spreadsheet application.

The

event.txt

file contains the following information that is not displayed

in the Web and Control Console Event Log screens.

The version of the

event.txt

file format (first field).

The Date and Time the

event.txt

file was retrieved.

The Name, Contact, Location, and IP address of the unit’s
management card.

An unique Event Code for every type of event.

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Item

Item

Item

Item

Description

Description

Description

Description

Date

The date on which the event occurred (DD/MM/YYYY)

Time

The time at which the event occurred (HH:MM:SS)

Event

Description of the event. For detailed descriptions of event codes,
select

APC

Interactive Assistant from the Navigation Bar on the Web

interface and read the page about event codes.

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