Compaq 112726-001 - ProLiant - 6500 White Paper page 4

ECG024/0498
W P
HITE APER
(cont.)
. .
. .
so the system administrator can quickly identify system failures. For example, as shown
. .
. .
in Table 1, each IML entry provides a status, which correlates to the severity level of
. .
each event.
. .
. .
. .
. .
. .
Compaq Integrated Management Log Viewer
. .
. .
. .
. .
Icon Term
. .
. .
Informational
. .
. .
. .
. .
Repaired
. .
. .
. .
. . Caution
. .
. .
. .
. .
Critical
. .
. .
. .
. .
. .
This information provides a status on the condition of the hardware or software so the
. .
user can take the appropriate action to monitor or repair the system event that occurred
. .
. .
in the IML. Marking events as "repaired" is discussed later in this document.
. .
. .
. .
Along with the severity level, the utility also provides a wealth of additional information
. .
to system administrators increasing the serviceability of Compaq servers. Listed below
. .
. . are the event fields found in the Compaq IML Viewer along with a description of each
. .
field type:
. .
. .
. .
Description – A brief description or account of the event including the
. .
location such as slot number or port number.
. .
. .
. .
Class – The category of the event such as in the disk subsystem,
. .
operating system, power subsystem, etc.
. .
. .
. .
Severity – The rating of the system event such as Informational,
. .
. . Repaired, Caution or Critical, where Informational is the lowest level
. .
and Critical is the highest. Refer to Table 1 for descriptions of
. .
. . severity levels.
. .
. .
Count – The number of times the event has occurred since the user
. .
. . cleared the log or since the initial startup of the system.
. .
. .
Updated Time – The time and date the event was last updated. An IML
. .
. .
event is updated when an administrator marks an entry as repaired.
. .
Each recorded event has a time stamp of one-minute granularity.
. .
. .
. .
Initial Time – The time and date stamp of the first occurrence of the
. .
system event.
. .
. .
. .
. .
. .
. .
. .
4
Table 1:
Severity Levels
Description
A comprehensive chronicle of past hardware or software system events. This type of
event requires no action by the administrator.
An action has taken place to fix this system event and the user marked this event as
being "repaired."
A non-critical system error has occurred and may or may not require action by the
administrator, however, it is recommended to take action if possible, then mark the
event as "repaired."
A system component on the unit has failed and requires action by the administrator.
Replace the system component, and then mark the event as "repaired."