Allied Telesis AT-S63 - Manual (Page 205)

AT-S63 Management Software Menus Interface User’s Guide
Section II: Advanced Operations 205
3. To enable or disable event logging, type 1 to toggle Event Logging
between the two options:
Enabled
The switch immediately begins to add events to the logs and send
events to any defined syslog servers. This is the default.
Disabled
The switch does not store events in the logs and does not send events
to any syslog servers.
Note
You cannot individually disable or enable the temporary and
permanent event logs.
Note
When the event log feature is disabled and the switch is rebooted,
initialization events are still stored in the logs.
4. To permanently save your change, return to the Main Menu and type S
to select Save Configuration Changes.
To display the events in a log, go to the next procedure.
Displaying an
Event Log
To view the events in an event log, perform the following procedure:
1. From the Main Menu, type 5 to select System Administration.
2. From the System Administration menu, type 8 to select Event Log.
The Event Log menu is shown in Figure 63 on page 204.
3. To specify the event log whose events you want to view, type 2 to
select Display Output and toggle between these two options:
Temporary (Memory)
Displays the events stored in temporary memory. This selection stores
approximately 4,000 events. If the switch has been running for some
time without a reset or power cycle, select Temporary. This is the
default.
Permanent (NVS)
Displays events stored in nonvolatile memory, which stores no more
than 2,000 events. If the switch was recently reset or power cycled and
you want to view the events that occurred prior to the reset, select
Permanent.