Viewing Chassis Codes Or Event Logs - HP Rp7410 - Server - 0 MB RAM Administrator's Manual

When you enter a console log viewer it displays the oldest data in the log first and allows you
to page through the log to view the more recently recorded activity.
Each console log is a circular log file that records approximately 30 to 40 pages of data. All
nPartition console activity is written to this log file, regardless of whether a user is connected to
the nPartition console.
As a console log is written the oldest data in the log is overwritten by current data, as needed,
so that the last 30 to 40 pages of console output always is available from the console log viewer.

Viewing Chassis Codes or Event Logs

The event log and chassis code viewers enables you to view chassis codes or event logs that are
emitted throughout the entire server complex.
NOTE: On HP 9000 servers with HP PA-8700 processors, the equivalent of event logs is chassis
codes.
To enter the event log viewer enter SL at the service processor Main menu. To exit the viewer
type ^b (Control-b) to return to the Main menu.
Event logs are data that communicate information about system events from the source of the
event to other parts of the server complex. Event log data indicates what event has occurred,
when and where it happened, and its severity (the alert level).
All event logs pass from the event source through the service processor. The service processor
takes any appropriate action and then reflects the event logs to all running nPartitions. If an
nPartition is running event monitoring software, it may also take action based on the event logs
(for example, sending notification e-mail).
System administrators, of course, may have interest in viewing various event logs—especially
event logs that indicate failures or errors.
Hardware, software, and firmware events may emit event logs as a result of a failure or error, a
major change in system state, or basic forward progress. For example: a fan failure, a machine
check abort (MCA), the start of a boot process, hardware power on or off, and test completion
all result in event logs being emitted.
NOTE:
The front panel attention LED for a cell-based server cabinet is automatically turned
on when one or more event logs of alert level 2 or higher have not yet been viewed by the
administrator. When this attention LED is on, entering the chassis log viewer turns the LED off.
You can remotely check the on/off status of this attention LED by using the PS command, G
option, from the service processor Command menu.
On cell-based servers, event logs are recorded in the server complex activity log (for events of
alert level 0 or alert level 1) or the error log (for events alert level 2 or higher).
GSP> SL
Chassis Logs available:
(A)ctivity Log
(E)rror Log
(L)ive Chassis Logs
(C)lear All Chassis Logs
(Q)uit
GSP:VW> L
Entering Live Log display
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