APC AP9211 - Manual (Page 18)

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 14
Menu Items
Event Log
continued
Retrieving the
Event Log by using
FTP, continued
3. Type get event.txt . The MasterSwitch PDU transmits the Event
Log, containing at least the last 300 events, to your specified drive.
The screen displays information similar to the following.
ftp>get event.txt
200 Command okay.
150 Opening data connection for event.txt
226 Closing data connection.
ftp: 3694 bytes received in 0.11Seconds
33.58Kbytes/sec.
ftp>
Using a
spreadsheet to
view the Event Log
To view the event.txt file after you obtain it, use a spreadsheet
application. The file is
TAB -delimited for automatic formatting of
columns.
Note: When you import the event.txt file into a spreadsheet, the
spreadsheet may display the year in the date fields as only two
digits instead of the four digits logged and displayed by the
MasterSwitch
PDU . To display the year as four digits, select a
four-digit date format in the spreadsheet.
The event.txt file also includes the following information that is not
shown in the Web and Control Console Event Log screens:
• The version of the event.txt file format (first field).
• The date and time at which the event.txt file was retrieved.
• The Name, Contact, Location, and IP address for the unit’s
Management Card.
• A unique Event Code for every type of event.
Deleting the Event
Log in the FTP
interface
To delete the Event Log, type del event.txt . You are not prompted
to confirm the deletion. The screen displays information similar to the
following:
ftp>del event.txt
250 Requested file action okay, completed.
ftp>
A new event.txt file is created immediately in response to the Deleted
Log event.