The event window is located at the lower edge of the user interface. It contains the latest events of all the RAID controllers which are managed by ServerView RAID Manager.
You can use the delimiter bar to enlarge or reduce this window. The width of the columns can be changed by dragging its border in the table header. This is sometimes useful for long event messages. A double click on an event opens a dialog, with which it is easy to navigate through the events and to catch the whole detailed message at a glance.
The following information is available for each event:
The type is additionally presented by an icon which indicates the severity of the event.
Error
Warning
Important Information
Date and time at which the event occurred
The name of the object which reported the event
Event ID
A brief message with a description of the event
ServerView RAID Manager logs all events in a Log file in plain text. This file is in XML format and is simple to read out and process.
In addition, all events are sent out as SNMP traps for further processing by ServerView Event Manager or any other management tool that can handle traps (e.g. IBM Tivoli, HP OpenView, etc.). Please refer to the ServerView documentation for further details and configuration options.
By default all events show up in the operating system's logging facility. On Windows based systems entries can be found in Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer (Application), on Linux systems in /var/log/messages, and on Solaris systems in /var/adm/messages.
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Note that the message texts, IDs and error classes of the events are the same as those used in the traps and in file/system logging. The only difference is that the four error classes of the traps have been reduced to three error classes for the events (Informational = Information, Minor = Warning, Major and Critical = Error). |