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Reviewing System Alerts and Messages

About this task

You can examine system alerts by scrolling through the Alerts panel of the Historian Administrator System Statistics screen or by examining the Message Search screen for more detail. Refer to Searching for Messages for detailed instructions. You can diagnose most operating problems by examining the archiver LOG file.

You may also find the Windows Event Viewer to be useful in diagnosing a problem. To open the Event Viewer, use the following procedure.

Procedure

Launch search.
Type eventvwr.msc and click OK.
The Event Viewer window appears.
Highlight an item.
A window appears with an explanation of the event.
Click Previous or Next to step through the messages.