IP changes history

Your Workbench PC records “before and after” TCP/IP settings made from Niagara platform connections in an ipchanges.bog file. If necessary, you can review changes from Workbench using the following procedure.

To review TCP/IP changes made from your Workbench PC

From your PC with Workbench started, do the following:

  1. In the Nav tree, expand “My Host” and then “My File System.”

  2. Expand “Sys Home” and then “users.”

  3. Expand your user folder, then expand “ipchanges.bog.”

    Child folders are “date-named” using the following convention:

    d<yyyymmddhhmmss>   for example, “d20041220171000” for 2004 Dec 20 5:10pm

  4. Expand any folder of interest. Underneath each folder are two objects:

    • priorValue — TCP/IP settings that existed before this change.

    • newValue — TCP/IP settings that existed after this change.

  5. Double-click a priorValue or newValue to see settings in the “Tcp Ip Host Editor” (see Figure 33).

NoteIf you have a platform connection open (to any host), you can also review the history of any IP changes (made by your Workbench) from its TCP/IP Configuration view. Click the “Audit” button. This shows your ipChanges.bog folder and all child change entries. Expand a change folder to see a decoded “modTime” value, for example, “19-Dec-2004 09:50 PM” (vs. "d20041219215002"). Double-click a “priorValue” or “newValue” in the view to see the settings in the “Tcp Ip Host Editor.”

Figure 33. Accessing ipchanges.bog in Workbench


Accessing ipchanges.bog in Workbench