ViewPoint Manual

Using ViewPoint

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Observing Historical Events

You can see messages for events that occurred at an earlier date or time with the

Alternate Event Configuration screen. For example, suppose you want to see messages

for events that occurred since 1:00 p.m., yesterday.

To see the messages for these earlier events, follow these steps:

1. Press F1 to display the TACL screen, if it is not already selected.

2. Press SF3 to request the Alternate Events screen.

Depending on how this display was last configured, you might see an events display

that is similar to an alternate-events display you saw previously.

3. Press F12 to display the Alternate Event Configuration screen.

Observe the After field and make a note of the current date and time values in this

field.

4. Move your cursor to the After field, and enter yesterday’s date with the year first,

month next, and day last.

An example is 92 for the year, 1992; 04 for the month of the year; and 02 for the day

in the month. An example for time is 13:00 (which is 1:00 p.m based on 24-hour

clock time). The field would look like the following:

After: 92-04-02 13:00:00

5. Press F12 to confirm the configuration and to return to the Alternate Events screen.

You are now in historical mode.

At first, the Alternate Events display might be empty except for the message

“Reading event log at tt:mm...”, which is displayed in the advice line. When the

Event Management Service (EMS) has located yesterday’s information, it begins to

return event messages, starting from the time you requested.

Notice the dates and times of the messages. These are historical messages.

Additional event messages are displayed as they are obtained by EMS. The update

rate is determined by the Delay Between Updates field in the Alternate Event

Configuration screen.

6. Search through the various pages of earlier events. Note that this is the end page, as

indicated in the upper-right corner of this screen.

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To observe earlier events, press PREV PAGE (or PG UP on some terminals).

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When the current page is not the last page, press NEXT PAGE (or PG DN on

some terminals) to observe later events.

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To select the first page, press SHIFT-PREV PAGE (or ALT-PG UP).

Alternatively, you can type the page number in the option line and then press

F3.