How to pull database and log files from Dashboard Advanced

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In some cases support may request system logs and/or the database file. This document outlines how to recover these files from the windows machine running Dashboard Advanced.

  1. Login to windows using an account with administrator privileges

  2. Open the services menu

  3. Find the Infinity.Host and Infinity.Agent services

    Disabling these services will stop Dashboard. Ensure all will not need access to the system while these files are being collected.

  4. Click on the Infinity.Host service

  5. On the right side of the panel click the text that says "Stop"

  6. Click on the Infinity.Agent service

  7. On the right side of the panel click the text that says "Stop"

  8. Open file Explore

  9. Click the view button along the top

  10. On the far right find the Show/Hide box

  11. Click the empty box next to "Hidden items" so it shows a check box

  12. Navigate to the install drive

    Normally this is the "C" Drive. In Window 10 file explore displays this as "OS (C:)" in the menu

  13. Open the "ProgramData" folder

  14. Open the "Telos" folder

  15. Open "Infinity" folder

    The Agent logs will be listed first , then Database file, and last the Host logs. Both sets of logs are going to be listed oldest to newest by date, and they are rotated every 24 hours.

  16. Select the dashboard Agent and/or host logs customer support is requesting

  17. Copy paste them to the desktop

  18. Select the db.dat file

  19. Copy paste this to the desktop

  20. Create a new folder on the desktop

  21. Place all files into this new folder

  22. right click on the folder

  23. Find the "Send to" option

  24. Select "compressed zipped"

  25. Attach the .zip file to a reply from your open email thread

  26. In the Windows Services window, click on the Infinity.Host service

  27. On the right side of the panel click the text that says "Start"

  28. Click on the Infinity.Agent service

  29. On the right side of the panel click the text that says "Start"