6.4.3 Categories
Categories are an optional feature that is disabled by default. If you want to use categories, you must enable the feature using the User Settings tab on the Settings screen (see Section 6.9).
Categories provide a method for grouping the log files listed under the Other Logs folder. If you use categories, SEA provides another layer of folders under the Other Logs folder. This feature may be useful if you monitor numerous log files.
6.4.3.1 Adding Categories
Once you have enabled the categories feature, you can add categories to the navigation tree. To add categories, follow these steps:
- The Category Maintenance screen appears in the display frame (Figure 6–14). The Add Categories tab is already selected.
Figure 6–14 Add Category
- The location and placement options determine where you would like the new category to appear in the navigation tree relative to existing categories. By default, new categories are added after the selected category.
- If no categories currently exist for the group, skip steps 2 and 3.
- Select an existing category from the list.
- Select a placement option from the radio buttons.
- Enter the name for the new category in the text field. Be sure to follow these rules for naming categories:
- Category names should be unique. If you enter the name of an existing category, SEA will not create the new category.
- Category names should not use punctuation characters. These characters can cause JavaScript errors in the web interface.
- Category names should be descriptives. If you leave this field blank, the category is named "newCat" by default.
- The new category appears in the navigation tree.
6.4.3.2 Removing Categories
Removing a category removes all the binary event log files contained in the category from the navigation tree.
To remove existing categories, follow these steps:
- Select the Other Logs folder for the node you want to remove categories from in the navigation tree.
- Select the Remove Category tab at the bottom of the screen (Figure 6–15).
Figure 6–15 Remove Category
- To select multiple categories, press CTRL and click on each category. If the categories are consecutive, press SHIFT and click on the first and last category names.
- The categories disappear from the navigation tree. If a log file is contained in multiple categories, removing it from one of the categories will not affect its presence in the others.