Displaying and Using the Activity Graph

The log browser includes an activity graph view that graphs activity from multiple log files over time. This can be useful to quickly identify irregular activity, such as a system reboot or a peripheral that stops responding.

Open the Activity Graph

1	From the Window menu, select Show View > Other.

2	From the Show View pop-up dialog, expand VMware.

3	Select Activity Graph and click OK.

Display log files in the activity graph

1	Click the plus (“+”) icon at the top right of the view to open the Add Log File to Graph dialog box.

2	Select one or more log files that you want to display and click OK.

The dialog box displays the log files already open in Workbench Log Browser. Each log is represented by a separate time line with the time scale spread out on the horizontal axis.

3	Adjust the time scale on the horizontal axis in one of three ways:

a	In one of the time lines, click and drag the cursor across an area of the time line that you are interested in expanding. When you release the cursor, the area you highlighted is expanded to fill the entire time line. The time scale is adjusted on the bottom axis.

b	Select one of the Zoom chart links at the top of the activity graph: 1min, 1hour, 1day, 1week, 1month.

The time line at the bottom changes to display the activity during that time interval.

c	Click the Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons to uniformly expand the time scale or to shrink the time scale.

Caution There are upper and lower bounds to the zoom scale. You will receive a warning message if you try to Zoom In to less than 100 ms, or Zoom Out to more than 10 years.

4	Use the Zoom Back and Zoom Forward arrow buttons at the top of the activity graph to move backward and forward through previous zoom settings.

5	To scroll through the entire log, move the Scroll chart horizontal slider at the top of the activity graph view to the left or right.

6	Double-clicking on an individual line in an activity graph causes the corresponding entry in the log browser to be highlighted.