Loading Events in Viewer

Tasks in this section:
> To Create Bookmark Favorites
> To Access Bookmark Favorites

The Viewer loads ALL recorded events from ALL data files. A very large number of recorded events (i.e., tens of thousands) could take a significant amount of time to load depending on access time to the hard drive and the speed/memory of the computer on which the Viewer is installed. In general, loading less than 10 days of activity from the typical computer should load in seconds. If the Viewer is loading a longer timeframe of recorded events, it may take considerably longer. You may want to consider reducing the number of data files to load. Excluding data files using a date range as each event has a time stamp.

Viewing Data and Monitor Users/Computer Views

Data recorded in the Monitor Users View will not be available after switching to the Monitor Computers view and vice versa.

Permissions to Access Data Vault

If the Viewer is running from within the Control Center using the Monitor Computers view, the Windows folder path provided to the Viewer will be the fully qualified network path to the folder associated with the selected computer name in which the Data Vault stored the events. It is important you have proper administrator  privileges to access the fully qualified network path.

Example

If the Control Center is configured to view events from the Data Vault and the Data Vault is configured to store the events in a folder called c:\Clientdata then the fully qualified network path used by the Viewer to access those events would be \\datavaultcomputer\C$\Clientdata\eventcomputer\.

Note The Data Vault computer must have File Sharing available for the Windows user account from which you are running the Viewer. The reason is the Data Vault folder will be accessed using the administrative share C$. The administrative share must be available even if you are running the Control Center and Viewer from the same computer on which the Data Vault resides.

Loading Archived Events

The Viewer can load and view archived events from folders that do not reside on the Data Vault computer. See Viewing Events from an Archive.

Create Bookmark Favorites for Network Data Locations

Create bookmark favorites for quick access to a network data location.  If you use this feature, you will not have to manually scroll to the network location every time you load recordings from an archive or multiple data vaults.

To Create Bookmark Favorites

  1. Open the Viewer.
    The Browse for Folder dialog box is displayed.

  2. From the Browse for Folder dialog box, navigate to the location on your network where the data files are stored.

  3. Click Add to Favorites.

  4. Type a name for the Data Directory location on your network.

  5. Click OK.

  
 

 

To Access Bookmark Favorites

  1. Open the Viewer.

  2. Click Favorites.

  3. Select the appropriate Favorite and then click OK.
    The favorite location is displayed in the Browse for Folder dialog box.

  4. Click OK to open the folder.

  
 

 


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Viewer Menu and Toolbar

Viewer Navigation

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