event log
termIT support
The operating system's diary of errors, warnings, and audits - where 'it just crashed' becomes a source, an ID, and a timestamp.
Windows' Event Viewer and Unix's journals: same idea, the machine wrote down what happened.
IT support
The operating system's diary of errors, warnings, and audits - where 'it just crashed' becomes a source, an ID, and a timestamp.
Windows' Event Viewer and Unix's journals: same idea, the machine wrote down what happened.