To Monitor Log Messages

Monitoring enables you to view new log messages as the messages occur. Each new message that arrives is highlighted.

1. Click the Monitor button on the View Logs screen.

   The Monitor Filter Options dialog box is displayed, as shown in the following figure.

   Figure 6–9 Monitor Filter Messages Dialog Box

   
   

2. Select Enable Log File Monitoring to enable log file monitoring.

3. To display only currently monitored log messages, select Clear Old Monitored Messages.

4. Type the text pattern to be matched in the Text Pattern to Match field.

   You can use a UNIX regular expression. For information about regular expressions, refer to the regex(1F) man page.

   Use a text pattern that is unique to the type of message in which you are interested.

5. To monitor your log messages and close this window, click the OK button.