Use the Configuration Manager 2007 Status Message Viewer window to view the status messages in a Configuration Manager 2007 database. You can control the amount of information you view by using queries and filters. You can also view status messages from child sites of the current Configuration Manager 2007 site as these are sent to the parent site.
You can modify how messages are displayed in the status message viewer window and which messages are displayed, for example:
- Sort the items in a column by clicking the
column heading.
- Change the order of columns by dragging
column headings.
- Add or remove columns by clicking
View, Options and then clicking the Columns
tab.
- Change the width of columns by dragging
column separators. Any item that is too wide for the current column
width ends in ellipses (...). The full item is shown in a box that
appears when you point to the item.
- Change the messages that are displayed by
running a query from the query list.
- Change the messages that are displayed by
using a filter.
If there are many messages, it might take a moment for them to be loaded into the status message viewer window. You can view the first messages while the others are being loaded, but any operations such as finding, sorting, or querying are suspended until all messages are loaded.
This dialog box contains the following elements:
- Severity
- Displays the status message severity as one of the following:
- Error
- Warning
- Informational
- Error
- Type
- Displays the type of status message from one of the following:
- Any
- Milestone
- Detail
- Audit
- Any
- Site code
- Specifies the site code and name of the Configuration Manager 2007 or SMS 2003 site where the status message was generated.
- Date/Time
- Specifies the date (in mm/dd/yy format) and time (in hh:mm:ss format) that the status message was generated.
- System
- Specifies the name of the Configuration Manager 2007 site system that generated the status message.
- Component
- Specifies the name of the Configuration Manager 2007 component that generated the status message (for example, SMS_SCHEDULER).
- MSG ID
- Specifies the message ID of the status message.
- Description
- Specifies the text of the status message. When displaying results, the viewer displays only the first 12 characters of the string. You can hover the mouse cursor over the description to read the full message.
- Save
- Saves the current contents of the status message viewer window as an ASCII text file with the columns separated by tabs or as a CSV file with the columns separated by commas.
- Prints the entire current contents of the status message viewer window, including those messages which might not currently be visible in the window without scrolling.
- Copy
- Copies the selected messages to the clipboard (with the columns separated by tabs).
- Delete
- Deletes the selected messages from the Configuration Manager 2007 database.
- Find
- Opens the Find Status Message dialog box, which enables you to find the next status message that meets the specified criteria.
- Filter
- Opens the Filter Status Messages dialog box, which enables you to configure the status message viewer window to display only messages that meet the specified criteria.
- Stop
- Stops the loading of messages into the status message viewer window, either during the initial loading or as the result of running a subsequent query.
- New Query
- Runs a new query. The default setting is Original Query.