Maintenance and Software Logs

Maintenance Logs record all maintenance-related information, including anything that affects the functioning or capacity of the system in any way. Examples of typical Maintenance Log entries are those reporting the busying of circuits, or those listing circuits which failed diagnostic tests.

NOTE: Pre-Save/Post-Save log entries for License and Options changes and Day/Night Service changes that were posted in the Maintenance logs prior to MCD Release 5.0 are now logged in the Audit Trail logs.

Software Logs record unusual activities within the system.

You can display maintenance and software logs as follows:

Depending on the display option selected, some or all of the following fields are shown:

Field

Description

Log Type

The type of log: Maintenance or Software.

Log Number

An index number unique to each log.

Severity

The severity level of the log. Levels, in order from least to most severe are as follows: Info (non-error), Warning (potential error), and Error.

Date

The year, month, and day that the log was generated.

Time

The time the log was generated.

Source

The component that generated the log event.

Description

A description of the log event.

Module

The system component that generated the log.

File Name and Line Number

The name of the file and the location (line number) in it that generated the log event.