History Viewing

[rick]

Hi - New user here. Can someone please tell me how to view the History files (history.dbf and/or history.cdx) ? I see that these files are present in my Wingate folder, ver. 5.2.0 (Build 885.)

If it is relevant, I have not installed the "Traditional Wingate Logging" plug-in, but would like to maintain a history log.

On a similarly related topic, I just looked at my Gatekeeper History tab and it is empty, even though a connected user has been active on the Internet with our shared connection since last reboot. There was much data on that screen yesterday. (I am the Admin.) Why would there not be activity data showing now?

Thanks!
rick

[Jason Dax]

This issue has been covered in varius threads, but, I know what it is to have a question an no one answer. So, here it is.

Somehow, .CDX an .DBF failes get corrupted. Just shut down wingate services, delete this two files and fire it up again. This will solve the problem

This problem will persist, don't know how long. When it appear again, do the process again.

Regards.

[rick]

Thanks, Jason!
That worked, but then like you said, it happened again about 10 minutes later when the history screen went blank.

Oh, well, guess that negates my other question & need - how to view the history logs. Obviously there won't be much "history" to view, on my system. :(

[Nev]

Hi all, the History issue crops up periodically on one machine with slow performance and the blank logging view!

Seems to be when the .DBF reaches 10~15mb or so, scheduler tasks to delete it and a few other ideas didn't remedy the situation at all.

Latest idea was to remove Wgengmon.exe from the Startup directory and set it to load by the task scheduler. At system boot the History files in the Wingate directory are moved to a temporary archive directory by a batch process that was already executing at every boot anyway.

Seems to be ok so far.

Interesting point is that there is no icon in the notification area, access to Gatekeeper is by a desktop icon.

Sort of silent mode, would this be expected?

Nev.

[nuanda]

Well the problem is alive and well.

Thanks for the tips.

I'm using 5.2.3 and periodically my history view blanks out. In my case, the history files are set up in a NON default location.

Your suggestion about deleting them and restarting wingate worked, though I suspect the history will disappear again at some point.

[Nev]

Well the problem is alive and well.

Thanks for the tips.

I'm using 5.2.3 and periodically my history view blanks out. In my case, the history files are set up in a NON default location.

Your suggestion about deleting them and restarting wingate worked, though I suspect the history will disappear again at some point.

Hi,

Well since the introduction of V6.x this issue [for me at least] has been non existent, so try the upgrade and report back how it goes!

Nev.

[Pascal]

Version 6 does try some interesting tricks to try and repair the database if it thinks there are any problems. So it might well be worth the upgrade as Nev suggested.

Additionaly, you can use your earlier version license keys with version 6.0 as well.