Displaying Events

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Displaying Events

Events can be displayed using the Group Manager GUI or CLI and are also seen on the console. Each event is assigned a priority. Table 1: Event Priorities lists event priorities in order from highest (most severe) to lowest (least severe).

Table 1: Event Priorities
Priority	Description
FATAL	Catastrophic failure that requires immediate administrator intervention.
ERROR	Serious failure that should be investigated and may require administrator intervention.
WARNING	Potential problem in the group. An event with this priority may become an event with error priority if administrator intervention does not occur.
INFO	Normal operational and transitional events that are of interest to administrators but do not require intervention.

Examples of event messages are shown next:

INFO 4/11/06 11:02:23 mem2 Volume ‘dbvol’ has been successfully created

WARNING 4/11/06 14:19:43 mem1 There are outstanding warning health conditions

Each event message displays:

Event priority
Date and time that the event occurred
Member that generated the event
Event text

You can view events by clicking Events in the far left panel of the GUI. The Group Events window appears (Figure 1: Group Events ).

To view additional information about events, place the cursor over the event message. Detailed information appears in a popup window. If the popup does not appear, check that you have enabled popups, as described in General Policies.

Figure 1: Group Events

From the Group Events window, you can:

View all events or events of a specific priority. Pull down the View menu and select the events you want to display, either all events, warning and error events, or fatal (critical) events.
Retrieve previous events. To retrieve the most recent 100 events, click the left-pointing arrow () icon. Click the icon again to retrieve the next 100 events.
Acknowledge all events. Unacknowledged events appear in bold. To acknowledge the receipt of all event messages, click the double checkmark () icon. Acknowledging all events turns off the bolding.
Clear the event list. To erase all the events from the panel, click the X () icon. To display the events again, click the retrieve previous events icon.
View and hide details. Click the magnifying glass icons () to display and hide detailed information about the selected event.

If the GUI is not available, you can use the Group Manager CLI to display events. Use telnet or SSH to connect to the group and log in to a group administration account. If you do not have a network connection, use a serial connection from an array to a console or computer running a terminal emulator. At the CLI prompt, enter the show recentevents command. See the CLI Reference for more information.