Athenaeums 1.5 review

Athenaeums is an EIMS filter for archiving of standard EIMS log documents, specifically the error log, mail log, sending error log, and console log documents.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 856K Developer: Deep Sky Technologies, Inc. Buy Now Price: $40.00 Updated: 29 Dec 2005

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Athenaeums is an EIMS filter for archiving of standard EIMS log documents, specifically the error log, mail log, sending error log, and console log documents. It is known to be compatible with EIMS v3.2.0 and above, though it may very well be compatible with EIMS v3.0.0 and above; no direct testing for compatibility with these older versions of EIMS has been done at this time. There are no expectations that Athenaeums is compatible with versions of EIMS before EIMS v3.0.0 at all.

There is a Mac OS 9 version and a Mac OS X version of the Athenaeums filter. These are entitled Athenaeums and Athenaeums X, respectively. Both builds of the Athenaeums filter are available in the single download archive which contains this manual.

Athenaeums offers full, discrete support for all EIMS log documents, including:

• Error Log;
• Mail Log;
• Sending Error Log;
• Console Log;

Here are some key features of "Athenaeums":
Does not interrupt operation of EIMS;
No quitting of EIMS application required;
Daily archives of each separate log document;
Hierarchical archiving of log documents by date;
Compression options for archived logs;
Email attachment options for rolled logs;
Compress rolled logs options when emailing;
Compatibility with Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X;
Compatibility with EIMS and EIMS X;
Customizable archive target directories;
Custom archived document names;
Customizable hierarchical archiving directories;
Settable archive document creator and document types;
Email notifications of archive actions;
Email notification of error conditions;
Maintenance of archived log document statistics (Size Log);
Control of notification manager alerts in preferences;
Dynamic reloading of modified preferences;
Set group name of archived documents under Mac OS X;
Set full permissions for archived documents under Mac OS X;
Automatic update notifications controlled with preferences;
Fully capable demo mode.

Limitations:
When running in demo mode, Athenaeums is fully capable.
The rolled log documents are limited in size though to the first 10 lines of the rolled log document while Athenaeums is running in demo mode.
And, while in demo mode, there is an added note to rolled log documents about purchasing a full license for Athenaeums to have it store the complete log documents when rolling.

What's New:
Control of notification manager alerts in preferences;
Dynamic reloading of modified preferences;
Set group name of archived documents under Mac OS X;
Set full permissions for archived documents under Mac OS X;
Automatic update notifications controlled with preferences;
Fully capable demo mode.

Requirements:
EIMS 3.0 or later.