FactoryTalk
Services Platform
FactoryTalk Diagnostics
FactoryTalk® Diagnostics is part of the FactoryTalk Services Platform and provides FactoryTalk-enabled products the ability to define, route and store information about errors or changes that happened in a FactoryTalk system. The information about these errors or change events are formatted into consistent messages and routed by FactoryTalk Diagnostics to defined logging locations for viewing and analysis. FactoryTalk Diagnostics supports multiple logging destinations, including a secured destination that allows all FactoryTalk enabled products to manage changes and comply with regulatory constraints.
Features
FactoryTalk Diagnostics collects, stores, and provides access to activity, status, warning, and error messages generated by products during all phases of a project, including installation, configuration and operation. FactoryTalk Diagnostics and FactoryTalk Audit provides historical records that help you get consistently formatted answers to questions about: what happened, when did it happen, what computers, users or products were involved, and what was the system or users response. Other features include:
- Consistent format includes a default set of pieces of information including date/time, user name, user description, category (severity and audience) and message text.
- Optional fields that can contain product specific information.
- Message text supports languages through the use of resource IDs.
Benefits
A FactoryTalk product with FactoryTalk Diagnostics can make a single call and route messages to not only a private store, but also to the FactoryTalk Diagnostics Local log, FactoryTalk View log and to the FactoryTalk Diagnostics ODBC data log—where the data is available across product and component boundaries. FactoryTalk Diagnostics makes it possible to retrieve, filter, and display messages from multiple logs on multiple machines generated by multiple products and components.
In addition, FactoryTalk Diagnostics leverages a Local log on the computer generating the messages, as well as a remote central database for the entire FactoryTalk system.