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Selecting a data source

If the Operation History Viewer is installed on the tracing system machine, a data source is created automatically. If not, you need to select a system data source before you can run the application.

To select a data source:

  1. In the Operation History Viewer window, click File > Data Source from the Operation History Viewer.
  2. The system displays the standard Windows ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box.

  3. Click the System DSN tab.
  4. Click Add.
  5. The system displays the standard Create New Data Source dialog box.

  6. Click Microsoft Access Driver and click Finish.
  7. The system displays the standard ODBC Microsoft Access Setup dialog box.

  8. In the Data Source Name field, type OperationHistory
  9. On the MAS that is running the Tracing Server software, share out the directory in which the Operation History Viewer database resides:
    Note: If you have already shared out this directory, (for example, for the Transaction database), then you may skip all of Step 6.
    1. In Windows Explorer, locate the directory in which the Operation History database (named ophist.mdb) resides. By default the path to this directory is: C:\Program Files\Avaya Modular Messaging\Tracing\
    2. Right-click the Tracing directory and, from the pop-up menu, select Sharing...
    3. The system displays the Tracing Properties dialog box.

    4. On the Sharing tab, select the Share this folder option.
    5. Click Permissions.
    6. The system displays the Permissions for Tracing dialog box.

    7. Select Everyone and make sure that at least Read permissions is set.
      Note: The other settings may be set at your discretion.
    8. In the Permissions for Tracing dialog box, click OK.
    9. In the Tracing Properties dialog box, click OK.
    10. Right-click the Tracing directory and, from the pop-up menu, select Properties.
    11. Select the Security tab.
    12. Verify that any users who will be using the Operation History Viewer have the following permissions set:
        • Read & Execute
        • List Folder Contents
        • Read
    13. Click OK.
    14. Right-click the ophist.mdb file and, from the pop-up menu, select Properties.
    15. Verify that any users who will be using the Operation History Viewer have the following permissions set:
        • Read & Execute
        • List Folder Contents
        • Read
    16. Click OK.
  10. In the Operation History Viewer window (back on the MAS running the Operation History Viewer software), click Select.
  11. The system displays the standard Select Database dialog box.

  12. Map a drive to the Operation History (ophist.mdb) database:
    1. Click Network...
    2. In the Drive: field, select a drive letter that has not already been used on this MAS.
    3. Enter the path to the Operation History (ophist.mdb) database by doing one of the following:
      • In the Folder: field, type the pathname using the format
      • \\servername\Tracing

        where servername is the domain name of the MAS on which the Tracing Server software is running.

      • Use the Browse... button to locate the Tracing directory on the MAS on which the Tracing Server software is running.
    4. Click Finish.
  13. In the Select Database dialog box, set the Drives field to the drive you mapped in the previous step.
  14. The system displays in the Dababase Name field a list of one or more databases on the mapped drive. The Operation History (ophist.mdb) database should be among them.

  15. Select ophist.mdb.
  16. Click OK.
  17. In the ODBC Microsoft Access Setup dialog box, click OK.
  18. In the ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box, click OK.

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