Creating historical sessions

Create an historical session when you want to view events already stored in the operation history database.

Start Operation History Viewer.

In the Viewer window, click File > New, or click the New icon

The system displays the Session Properties dialog box.

In the Session Name field, enter the name of the session, if required.

In the Message Application Server field, enter or click the MAS for which you want to display events. If you want to display events for all the MASs in the voice mail domain, click All Servers.

Do one of the following:

If you want to restrict the display of events by date and time, continue with Steps 6 through 10.

If you do not want to restrict the display of events by date and time, click Clear and continue with Steps 7 through 10.

In the From and To fields, under Date and Time, enter the first and last date and time for session creation.

If you want to modify the session properties later to create different event viewing scenarios, we recommend that you select one of the relative date values in the Date field, for example, Today. This saves you from reentering an absolute date for each scenario you create.

Note: To retrieve the default times and dates, click Default. Note that the defaults are the application defaults unless you have set up your own. Setting up your own default dates is described in the section Setting new session defaults.

Under Select Types, select the event severity type or types to display. You must select at least one of Error, Warning or Information.

Under Selection Activities, select the event criteria to display by selecting the appropriate boxes. You can quickly select all activities by selecting All Activities.

If you select All Activities, the application ignores any mailbox or port number values you enter.

You can further restrict the display of mailbox and port activity events by entering a range of mailbox or port numbers in the Value field, using a comma separator. No negative numbers or spaces are allowed in a range. The first number in a range must be less than the last number in a range, for example, port numbers, 1-8, 16-24.

Under Sort By, select the type of value by which you want events to be sorted. None is selected by default.

This means that events are sorted in the order in which they were entered in the database.

Click OK.

Creating historical sessions

To create an historical session: