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Event Console

Event Management gives you a visual window into event activity that lets you view and immediately respond to events as they occur. The Event Console provides two areas to view event messages written to the console log.

• The held messages area displays messages that require a response. These messages are often critical and require immediate attention or require an operator reply. Held messages that require an operator reply are WTOR (Write To Operator with Reply) messages. When no held or WTOR messages exist, the area reserved for messages of that type disappears. If a reply pending message (WTOR) has been sent, and either the Event Manager or the entire system goes down while the message is still pending, the message is queued and activated automatically (appears to be still active) when the Event Manager is brought back up.
• The log messages area displays all logged messages (including held messages). Through message records and actions, you can further highlight these messages with a variety of colors and attributes to make them more noticeable on the console display.

You can narrow the focus of the display so you can concentrate on events pertinent to your immediate situation. For example, you can apply filters that limit the number of messages displayed. You can also append comments to messages that come across the console.

More information:

Multiple Remote Console Logs

Security for Console Log Viewing

Console Log File

Event Logs and Mobile Devices