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within a selected entry. This view also supports initialization of volumes, as well as
publishing and unpublishing of volumes.
Archive Volume objects are located under their respective archive device object
which is typically under an Industrial IT Archive service provider object in the Node
Administration structure.
The aspect view is displayed by selecting the archive volume aspect in the aspect
list. This aspect is organized in three parts. The top section provides information for
the selected volume. The middle section lists the entries currently stored on this
volume. When an entry is selected in the middle section, the logs that were archived
for the selected entry are shown in the bottom section.
The functions supported by this aspect are listed in Supported Functions.
The information provided on this aspect is described in Archive Volume Aspect
Information.
Supported Functions. The archive functions supported by this aspect are
described in Table 10.
Table 10. Archive Functions for Archive Volume Aspect
Field Description
Initializing an Archive
Volume
Each new archive volume must be initialized
prior to archiving data on it. For scheduled
archives, volumes are automatically initialized if
the device behavior is set to Advance When
Full or Wrap When Full. For manual archives,
the volume must be manually initialized.
Publishing an Archive
Volume
Method for making archived numeric and
message data available for data access.
Showing Platform
Information
Provides access to aspects of the selected
object(s), for example, the Log Configuration
aspect.