View Commands Issued by Administrators

To search the server activity log for messages selected by a range of time or date, message number, or string expression, first complete the following fields and then click Finish, or click Cancel to end the task. If you do not specify any parameters for this command, all messages that were generated in the last hour are displayed.

Begin Date

Enter the beginning date of the range for the messages to be displayed. It displays all the messages meeting the time range criteria that occurred after this date.

The settings for Begin Date are:

MM/DD/ YYYY Specifies that you want to display information beginning with records created on a specific date, using MM/DD/YYYY format.

Example: 01/31/1997

TODAY Specifies that you want to display information beginning with records created on the current date. The default is the Today.
TODAY -numdays or -numdays Specifies that you want to display information beginning with records created on the current date minus a specific number of days. The maximum value for the number of days is 9999.

Example: To display information beginning with records created a week ago, you can specify Today-7 or simply -7.

Begin Time

Enter the beginning time of the range for messages to be displayed. It displays all the messages meeting the date range criteria that occurred after this time. If you do not specify a value for this parameter, all messages that occurred in the last hour are displayed.

The settings for Begin Time are:

HH:MM:SS Specifies that you want to display information beginning with records created at a specific time on the specified begin date using HH:MM:SS format.

Example: 12:33:28

NOW Specifies that you want to display information beginning with records created on or before the current time on the specified begin date.
NOW +numhours: numminutes or +numhours: numminutes Specifies that you want to display information beginning with records created on or before the current time plus a specific number of hours (and, optionally, minutes) on the specified begin date.

Example: If you issue the Query Activity Log command at 9:00 with Begin Time=NOW+3 or Begin Time=+3, ADSM displays records with a time of 12:00 or later on the specified begin date.

NOW -numhours: numminutes or -numhours: numminutes Specifies that you want to display information beginning with records created on or before the current time minus a specific number of hours (and, optionally, minutes) on the specified begin date.

Example: If you issue the Query Activity Log command at 9:00 with Begin Time=NOW-3:30 or Begin Time=-3:30, ADSM displays records with a time of 5:30 or later on the specified begin date.

End Date

Enter the ending date of the range for messages to be displayed. All messages meeting the time range criteria that occurred before this date are displayed. If you do not specify a value for this parameter, the current date is used. All the dates and times used are server date and time.

The settings for End Date are:

MM/DD/ YYYY Specifies that you want to display information ending with records created on a specific date using MM/DD/YYYY format.

Example: 02/28/97

TODAY Specifies that you want to display information ending with records created on the current date. The default is the Current Date.
TODAY -numdays or -numdays Specifies that you want to display information ending with records created on or before the current date minus a specific number of days. The maximum value for the number of days is 9999.

Example: To display all volume history information created up to yesterday, you can specify Today-1 or simply -1.

End Time

Enter the ending time of the range for messages to be displayed. It displays all the messages meeting the date range criteria that occurred before this time. If you do not specify a value for this parameter, all messages are displayed up to the time when you issued this command.

The settings for Endtime are:

HH:MM:SS Specifies that you want to display information ending with records created on or before a specific time on the specified end date using HH:MM:SS format.

Example: 12:33:28

NOW Specifies that you want to display information ending with records created on or before the current time on the specified end date.
NOW +numhours: numminutes or +numhours: numminutes Specifies that you want to display information ending with records created on or before the current time plus a specific number of hours (and, optionally, minutes) on the specified end date.

Example: If you issue the Query Activity Log command at 9:00 with End Time=NOW+3 or End Time=+3, ADSM displays records with a time of 12:00 or earlier on the specified end date.

NOW -numhours: numminutes or -numhours: numminutes Specifies that you want to display information beginning with records created on or before the current time minus a specific number of hours (and, optionally, minutes) on the specified end date.

Example: If you issue the Query Activity Log command at 9:00 with End Time=NOW-3:30 or End Time=-3:30, ADSM displays records with a time of 5:30 or earlier on the specified end date.