Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 205)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
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Server logs
About logs
You can view and export contents from different logs related to the system. The purpose of the logs is
to document activity, events, actions and errors in the system, for later analysis or documentation.
The logs have different purposes:
Name Description
System log Logs system-related information.
Audit log Logs user activity.
Rule log
Logs rules in which users have specified the Make new log entry
action.
Your system has a number of default settings related to the different logs. To change the settings, see
Server Logs tab (see "Server Logs tab (options)" on page 216) under Options.
You can view logs in a number of different languages and export logs as tab delimited text (.txt) files.
If a log contains more than one page of information, you can navigate between the log pages by
clicking the buttons in the bottom right corner of the log pane:
In the lower left corner, jump to a specific date and time in the log:
Search logs
To search a log, use Search criteria in the top part of the log pane:
1. Specify your search criteria from the lists.
2. Click Refresh to make the log page reflect your search criteria. To clear your search criteria,
and return to viewing all of the log's content, click Clear.
You can double-click any row to have all details presented in a Log Details window. In this way you
can also read the log entries that contain more text than can be displayed in a single line.