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Use the predefined views in Log Viewer to:

  • view particular set of list and text formatted logs and traces.

  • search, filter and download logs and traces.

  • use a template for creating a custom view.

Features

Each predefined log view is defined by particular filters and customized table columns.

General Views

This log perspective shows the most used logs and traces. They can be addressed to both system administrators and developers, accordingly.

For more information, see:Predefined General Views

Expert View

This perspective shows all log files and provides additional filtering options.

For more information, see: Using the Expert View

Standalone Log Viewer

This perspective allows you to connect to a remote system that is not running to view its logs/traces.

For more information, see: Connecting to a Remote System

Custom Views

You can use the predefined views as a template for creating custom views.

For more information, see: Creating, Exporting and Importing Custom Views

Procedure

You can perform log configuration and then see the particular log records at runtime. To do that, proceed as follows:

  1. You currently use a log view (from the View dropdown box).

  2. Choose   Related Links   Log Configuration  .

  3. In this tool, configure the log controllers you want.

    For more information, see: Configuring Log Controllers

  4. Save your configuration.

  5. Choose Related Links and go back to Log Viewer.

  6. Open the same log view you have last used.

    You can see the particular log records as a result of your configuration.

More Information

The conditions for applying filters are the following: when you set two or more filter criteria of the same type, the condition is logical OR. When you set filter criteria of a different type, the condition is logical AND.

Example Example

If you set the following filters by content:

Severity equals WARNING

Severity equals ERROR

Category contains /System/

the system will display logs and traces with category /System/ and severity levels WARNING and ERROR.

End of the example.