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Configuring Event Log Viewer to Display Kaleido Alarms
 

REQUIREMENTS:  

Make sure you meet the following conditions before beginning this procedure: 
You have opened the iControl—Lookup location page of your Application Server (click HERE).
Your Kaleido GSMs are operational.
You have defined your channel databases in XEdit with feature-friendly channel names. Doing this enables the system to automatically create entries in the Global Alarms portion of the Kaleido GSM.
1. On the iControl—Lookup location page, for each Kaleido device you would like to make visible to your system, perform the following sub-steps:
a) Type the IP address and name of the Kaleido multiviewer to which you would like iControl to connect in the Service and alarm discovery area.

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b) Click Add lookup.
2. Open iC Navigator (click HERE).
3. In iC Navigator, in the Logical View, click the Managers folder.
System Response: The Kaleido multiviewers you added should be visible in the Managers folder.

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4. Perform the following sub-procedure for each Kaleido GSM you made visible to iControl.
a) Double-click the Kaleido GSM.
System Response: The GSM Control Panel appears.

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b) Click the Admin tab and then click the Actions tab.

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c) Click Add global.
System Response: The New Action window appears.
d) Click Event and incident log, and then click New.

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System Response: The Event and Incident Log Configuration window appears.
e) In the Host name (or IP address) field, type the IP address of your Application Server, and then click OK.

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5. In iC Navigator, click Event log viewer.

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System Response: A Log Selection window appears.

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6. Select your Application Server, and then click Select.
System Response: Event Log Viewer appears.
7. In Event Log Viewer, type the channel name in the Name box of the Alarm properties area, and then click Search.

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NOTE: You can use the multi-criteria query tools of Event Log Viewer to refine your search. For more information, click HERE.