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:

In the Nav tree, expand “My Host” and then “My File System.”
Expand “Sys Home” and then “users.”
Expand your user folder, then expand “ipchanges.bog.”

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

d<yyyymmddhhmmss> for example, “d20100413141522” for 2010 Apr 13 2:15pm
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.
Double-click a priorValue or newValue to see settings in the “Tcp Ip Host Editor” (see Figure 32).

Figure 32. Accessing ipchanges.bog in Workbench

If you have a platform connection open (to any host), you can also review the history of IP changes made from your Workbench’s TCP/IP Configuration view. Click the Audit button at the bottom of the view. This shows your ipChanges.bog folder and all child change entries. Expand a change folder to see a decoded “modTime” value, for example, “13-Oct-2009 02:15 PM” (vs "d20091013141522"). Double-click a “priorValue” or “newValue” in the view to see the settings in the “Tcp Ip Host Editor.”