Log Window Options

In the Log window, you can filter the log entries to see the ones that are for a particular contact, severity, or entry type. You can also delete all log entries or just the selected ones.

Below is a list of all available actions in the Log window:

1. Resume Updates – if you have highlighted a row from the Log window, new entries will not be displayed until you resume updating the table. For this purpose, click on the Resume Updates button and the table will be updated.

2. Filter by:

   1. contacts – select a particular contact from the contacts list in the Who drop-down menu under the Filters area;

   2. severity of the entry – select a severity type from the Severity drop-down menu under the Filters area. The available options are:

      • All – displays the entries of all severity types;
      • Error – displays only errors;
      • Warning – displays only warning messages;
      • Info – displays only information entries;

   3. entry type – select an entry type from the Type drop-down menu under the Filters area. The available options are:

      • All – shows all entries of all types;
      • Error – displays error entries;
      • Connect – displays connection entries which show information about the type of the connection (manual or automatic), when a connection has been established/dismantled, and whether the file transfer has began/ended;
      • Transfer – these entries show information about each of the transferred files – file name, size, transfer time, average bandwidth throughput, and cyclic redundancy check (CRC);
      • Output – log entries with information regarding services execution;
      • Spooling – displays printer processing messages;
      • Notification – all other messages that do not regard the rest of the described options;
      • Summary – shows summaries of the file transfers including number of transferred files, total transferred file size, average bandwidth throughput, and total transfer time;
      • Info – displays information about configuration settings like available disc space, remote administration configuration, IP address of your server, database, etc. The displayed results are the ones that satisfy the conditions from all filters.
3. Copying the log contents – you can select and copy sections of the log to the clipboard as tab-delimited text to use in other programs. It may take a long time to copy multiple log entries.

4. Managing outdated log entries – because the Log window records all significant MassTransit events, the list can become long and unwieldy. A long log list may slow MassTransit down. You can remove log entries that no longer have any relevance to you. You can either delete selected entries manually or set MassTransit to remove entries automatically once they reach a certain age. You can also remove entries using scripts. Entries are purged daily as they exceed this number. You can set up a script which warns you before the log is purged and delete records of your choosing before the purge takes place.

   1. To remove log entries manually, follow these steps:

      • to remove all log entries – click on the Remove Displayed Entries button under the Maintenance area of the window.

        to remove selected entries only:
        - highlight the entries you want to delete (Press Shift and click to select multiple nonadjacent entries. You can also press Control and click to select/deselect an individual entry.) and click on the Remove Selected Entries button under the Maintenance area.

                       - OR -

        - display the log entry or entries you want to remove using the filters, then click Remove Displayed Entries.

   2. To remove log entries automatically, follow these steps:

      • Open the Setup window of the MassTransit Administrator by clicking on the Setup button from the Navigation Bar or by selecting the Setup... option from the Window main menu.
      • Open the Special tab of the Setup window.
      • From the Log and File Handling section, select the Clear Log Entries Older Than __ Days checkbox and type an age in days.

   

   • Click OK to save the changes.