Troubleshooting With Logs; Viewing Logs With Fabric Manager; Viewing Logs With The Cli - Cisco 9134 - MDS Multilayer Fabric Switch Troubleshooting Manual

Chapter 1 Troubleshooting Overview
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Troubleshooting with Logs

Cisco SAN-OS generates many types of system messages on the switch and sends them to a syslog
server. These messages can be viewed using Fabric Manager or the CLI to determine what events may
have led up to the current problem condition you are facing.
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Viewing Logs with Fabric Manager

Fabric Manager and Device Manager present concise views of the generated system messages and other
logged events:
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Viewing Logs with the CLI

The following CLI commands are available to access and view logs on a switch:
Musky-9506# show logging ?
console Show console logging configuration
info Show logging configuration
last Show last few lines of logfile
level Show facility logging configuration
logfile Show contents of logfile
module Show module logging configuration
monitor Show monitor logging configuration
nvram Show NVRAM log
server Show server logging configuration
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Example 1-1
Musky-9506# show logging server
Logging server: enabled
{10.91.51.204}
server severity: critical
server facility: user
OL-9285-05
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Viewing Logs with the CLI, page 1-13
Viewing the Log from the Supervisor, page 1-14
In Device Manager, click Logs to set up and view logs.
In Fabric Manager, select the Logs tab at the bottom of the fabric pane to view log information.
Learn to use Threshold Manager to alert you that critical statistics have exceeded a set threshold.
shows an example of the show logging CLI command output.
show logging Command
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Troubleshooting Guide, Release 3.x
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