21.2.1.1         System Log

This shows a centralized Action Log for the Project Node. This is the same as System Log on the Home Page of the Project Manager.

The System Log shows user Actions on the Project:

From the Project Manager, Project Users can see the System Log from the 'Project Home' page.

Power Users can also see this Action Log from VIEW using the Tools menu:
Right Click -> Tools -> System Log
.

All Users can also see this Action Log from ViewDAQ using the menu bar:
Tools -> System Log
.

The System Log can be sorted and filtered by Project, SCADA Node, Time, Date, User, Action and IP addresses.

An HTML report is printed.

An HTML report displayed can be copied and pasted into EXCEL, WORD and other office applications preserving the cell, column and other formatting.

Data can be exported to EXCEL  (VIEW and ViewDAQ to EXCEL 2000 or later, the Project Manager requires EXCEL 2002 or later).  See 21.3.2 Export to EXCEL from ODBC Log

The default number of records per page for log displays is to 600.

The system display used by VIEW and ViewDAQ is bwsyslog.uti.

The data is contained on the Project Node at drive:\WebAccess\Node\bwPDATA.mdb

The database table is  BwSysLogTable: User action log table.

a. ProjNodeId : Unique ID for a SCADA node.

b. LogDate : Date of  the record was recorded.

c. LogTime : Time of the record was recorded.

d. UserName : The user who made the action

e. Action Type : number corresponding to Action type

f. Action : Description of the User Action

g. SourcePC : host name of PC that made this action (if available).

h. SourceIP : The IP address of the PC that made this action.

j. ProjId : The unique id number of the project affected.

i. ProjName : The name of the project affected.

k. NodeName : The node that this action happened.