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Logs View is XpoLog's data browsing
tool. You can access it by clicking a log entry in the tree or by
clicking the 'Logs View' entry in the 'Main' top menu.
The logs view can accommodate up to 10 different logs, each shown in
a separate tab.
The name of each log is displayed in the tab. Locating the mouse
over the name of a log will display the tree-path of the log. |
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The log view screen is divided into two
main areas: a control panel located at the left and the data view
area located in the center.
You can spread the data view area across the whole screen by
clicking the
icon located in the top left part of the data view area.
The data could be displayed in two ways: |
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Tabular View - this is the default
view. It displays the data in a tabular model, each record in a
table row.
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List View - the data is shown as a
list, each record is one item in the list.
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You can switch between tabular view and
list view by clicking the matching tab in the top right corner of
the data view area. You can sort
the data by a specific column by clicking the on column's name. The
first click will sort the data in descending order. Every additional
click will
switch the sorting order.
You can turn the sorting off by clicking the
icon
on the left of the column name. |
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The data view area contains a log browsing
control panel for easy log browsing. The control panel contains the
following controls: |
- show the beginning of the log
- show the previous records
- show the next records
- show the end of the log
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The control panel also contains a log records
counter that controls the number of records that are displayed. This
control can be used n two ways: |
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Select the number of records to be
displayed and click the previous or next records button - this
will
display the previous or next X records, X being the number of
records you selected.
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Select the number of records to be
displayed and click the
icon (at the bottom part of the data view area) - this will
display X records from the current position, X being the number
of records you selected.
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If you are viewing a log composed
of files, you can browse to a data stored in a specific file of your
log directly by switching
to 'File View' in the 'Find' section of the control panel located on
the left and clicking the file's name.
The 'Tail' link, located in
the bottom of the data view area, allows you to
view online changing files without the need
to refresh the view. New records that are written to the log will be
added to the end of the view
automatically (if a filter is active, only records that match the
filter will be added).
The default settings of the tail are:
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Refresh Rate - 2
seconds.
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Records Accumulation -
500 (after 500 records are shown the page will be refreshed to
show new records).
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In the bottom of the data view are exists a
progress bar that reports how many
records were found so far in the parsing or filtering process.
You can use the 'Stop' button to stop the action in progress. |
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Filters can be activated in two ways: |
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Click a filter in the control panel
located on the left, under the Filters section.
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Select a filter from the filters list in
the data view area and click the Go button.
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After a filter is activated, only records
matching the filter criteria will be displayed in the data view
area.
The filters' drop down menu, located under
the arrow to the right of the 'Go' button in the top of the data
view area, enables the following actions: |
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Edit - edit the selected
filter.
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New - create a new
filter.
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Multi - create a new
multi filter.
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Negate - create a
negative filter of one or more existing filters.
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Duplicate - create a new
filter based on the selected filter.
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Remove - delete the
selected filter.
In case the data pattern of the log
contains a field of type priority/choice, quick filters for all the
priorities/choices will be added to the bottom of the drop down
menu.
Note: you can quickly create
filters in two ways: |
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By typing in a term in the text box in
the top of the data view area and clicking the 'Filter' button.
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By entering the filter criteria in the
'Find' section in the control panel located on the left and
clicking the 'Find' button.
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Searches can be performed by typing in a term
in the text box in the top of the data view area and clicking the
'Find' button.
Matching terms will be highlighted. |
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When viewing the result of a filter or
search, you can drill down into the log in order to view the records
near a record that matched the filter or search.
Do this by clicking the
icon
in the left most column of the record you wish to drill down to (the
record you selected will be highlighted in the drill down view).
You can go back to the filtered view by clicking the
Back icon, located in the top left corner of the data view area. |
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When viewing a log file, the
following tools could be accessed from the 'Tools' section of the
control panel located on the left: |
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Customize - change several
settings of the log. Read more in
Log Customization
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Export - export the log's data and
configuration (optional). Read more in
Export Log
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Print - print the current view of
the log.
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Aggregation Report - create an
aggregation report on the log.
In addition, you can use the
search
context menu to search term from the log in predefined
repositories.
Do this by right-clicking
a term in the log and choosing the
repository to search in under the 'Search' entry. Read more in
Log View Settings |
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Filter
Definition |