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The System Console provides details on active and completed tasks, files imported and exported by PhixFlow, and the audit trail of changes made to PhixFlow's configuration.

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The following buttons are available at the top of the System Console:

Press this to bring up the System Logging Configuration. From this form, analysis logging properties can be configured.

Press this to bring up the task plan list.


There are five tabs available to show information about the

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TaskLogs
Task Logs

Active Tasks

Displays a log a log file summary for each task Task that is currently active. If a Log File is selected from the list with a right click, the Right click on the task and select Show Log File option can be chosen from on the context menu to bring up the detailed log file.

Active Tasks can be stopped at any time, if required (this may be useful when testing new models) by pressing the button.

Completed Tasks

Displays a log a log file summary for each task that has completed.

If a Log File is selected from the list with a right click, the Show Log Details option can be chosen from the context menu to bring up the log file.

If the stream sets generated by an analysis run were rolled back and the analysis repeated (see under Stream Sets form below), the log file entry will have a button Image Removed in the Status field. Pressing this button will bring up the new log file that was produced when the Analysis run was redone.

If the stream sets generated by an analysis run were rolled back, the log file entry will have a buttonImage Removed in the Status field. Pressing this button will bring up the log file for the rollbackeach Task that has completed.

The following buttons are available for Completed Tasks:

Apply a filter to the list of Completed Tasks.

Refresh the list of Completed Tasks.


Log file entries are colour coded as shown below:

Red

This log file contains errors

Orange

This log file contains warnings

BlueThe initiator of this log file is currently suspended which is why the task has not run.


The following details are available for each log file:

Started date and time that was started
FieldDescription
Initiator TypeStartedThe PhixFlow object that was used to launch date and time that this Analysis run was started.
FinishedThe date and time that this Analysis run finished.
Login nameArchive TimeThe user that stated this run.date and time that this Log File was archived.
NameThe name of the Task which has been run.
CancelledWhether this Analysis run was cancelled by a user.
StatusAn icon will indicate if the stream sets generated by the Analysis run were rolled back from the Stream Sets tab in the system console. See below for details.
TasksThe number of individual Tasks that were run as part of this Analysis run.
MessagesThe total number of messages in the Log File.
InfoThe number of information messages contained in the Log File.
ErrorsThe number of error messages contained in the Log File.
WarningsThe number of warning messages contained in the Log File.
Initiator TypeThe PhixFlow object that was used to launch this Analysis run.
FinishedLogin nameThe date and time user that stated this Analysis run finished.
CancelledWhether this Analysis run was cancelled by a user.
ActionWhether the task was a stream action.

If a Log File is selected from the list with a right click, the Show Log Details option can be chosen from the context menu to bring up the log file.

If the stream sets generated by an analysis run were rolled back and the analysis repeated (see under Stream Sets form below), the log file entry will have a button Image Added in the Status field. Pressing this button will bring up the new log file that was produced when the Analysis run was redone.

If the stream sets generated by an analysis run were rolled back, the log file entry will have a buttonImage Added in the Status field. Pressing this button will bring up the log file for the rollback.

These buttons will only appear if the stream sets were rolled back from the system console stream sets tab.

Tab: Messages

The log messages for the currently selected log file. For each message the following fields are shown:

FieldDescription
TypeThe type of message e.g. INFO, WARN, ERROR or DEBUG
CodeThe numberic numeric error message code.
MessageThe summary message output by the analysis engine.

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Apply a filter to the list of log messages.

Refresh the list of log messages.

Log message details

Double-click on a log message to see further details. In addition to the standard fields, you will also find, on its own tab, the message detail:

FieldDescription
Message DetailDisplays the values of the variables in the parser or detailed stack trace. Populated if an error occurs during analysis or a debug attribute function has been processed.

Tab: Stream Sets

The Stream Sets for the currently selected log file.

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Roll back the data for each Stream Set, and run Analysis again. Note that when data is rolled back, any subsequent - "downstream" - Stream Sets will also be rolled back. After "reprocessing" a Log File in this way, the Log File will be flagged as "Reprocessed", and no Stream Sets will be associated with it.

Roll back the data for each Stream Set. Note that when data is rolled back, any subsequent - "downstream" - Stream Sets will also be rolled back.

Tab: Imported/Exported Files

A list of files that have been read into PhixFlow by File Collectors or produced by PhixFlow File Exporters. This is found on the Imported/Exported Files tab on the System Console, on the Imported/Exported Files tab in the System Console tab on the System Console, or when viewing the details of an individual file.

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By right clicking on a file you can select Show File Importer/Exporter. This will being up the configuration of the importer or exporter used to handle this file.


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Imported/Exported Files

FieldDescription
CycleThe analysis cycle in which the file was processed.
Processed AtDate and time that file was processed
TypeImported or Exported
File Importer/ExporterThe Importer or Exporter used to handle this file.
StatusStatus of the file.
RecordsThe number of records in the file.
FTP SiteThe FTP Site the underlying file handler is attached to, if there is one.
LocationThe location of the file on the file system.

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EmailMessages
Email Messages

Emails which have been created by the system, from task plans or file exporters.

FieldDescription
Created Date/TimeThe date and time at which the email was created.
Send by Date/TimeThe date and time at which the system will stop trying to send the email.
StatusThe status of the email (ready, sent, failed, etc).
Status MessageA message associated with the status, such as the reason for failure.
Email SubjectThe subject of the email.
Email MessageThe message of the email.
FromThe email address the message is being sent from.
ToA list of the email addresses the email will be sent to.
CcA list of the email addresses the email will be Cc to.
BccA list of the email addresses the email will be Bcc to.
Creator NameThe name of the PhixFlow object which created the email.
Creator TypeThe type of the PhixFlow object which created the email.
Zip all attachmentsWhether any attachments are being added as a zip file.
Zip file nameThe name of the attached zip file.

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AuditSummary
Audit Summary

Summary details of audited actions performed on PhixFlow objects.

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The Audit Details of an audited action can be viewed with the details of an individual Audit Summary System Console.

Form: Audit Details

FieldDescription
Audit DetailsA detailed description of the audited action.

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FieldDescription
Date/TimeThe date/time the audited action took place.
UsernameName of the User who performed the audited action.
Original NameOriginal Name of the Object that was changed. i.e. if the name of the object was up dated, this is the original value.
Action DescriptionA summary description of the action.

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Archive Log

Details of archived Stream Sets from Streams which have been configured to archive.

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FieldDescription
Archive TimeDate and time of the Archive task.
Archive TaskThe name of the Archive Task.
Stream Sets ArchivedThen number of Stream Sets archived.
Archive FileThe name of the compressed zip file created to contain the archived data.

Form Icons

The form provides some of the standard form icons. When viewing the list of Archive Logs from the System Console, the following icon is also available:

Restore archived data. This brings up the Restore from Archive form.

Note: Each Archive ZIP file contains a number of CSV files, each containing archived data for a single stream set. Ensure that you have extracted the CSV files for the stream sets that you want to restore from the Archive ZIP file and placed them in the restore directory before initiating the Restore.

Tab: Stream Sets

This form is only available when viewing the details of an individual Archive Log.

FieldDescription
Stream NameThe name of the Stream that was archived.
From DateThe From Date of the Stream Set archived.
To DateThe To Date of the Stream Set archived.
Records ArchivedThe number of records in the Stream Set archived.
Partial ArchiveTicked if the archive was only partial.

See Also

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