Reference Guide

Introduction 11
Viewing Alerts and Event Messages
An event log is used to record information about important events.
Server Administrator generates alerts that are added to the operating system
event log and to the Server Administrator alert log. To view these alerts in
Server Administrator:
1
Select the System object in the tree view.
2 Select the Logs tab.
3 Select the Alert tab.
You can also view the event log using your operating system’s event viewer.
Each operating system’s event viewer accesses the applicable operating
system event log.
The location of the event log file depends on the operating system you are using.
• On systems running the Microsoft Windows operating systems, event
messages are logged in the operating system event log and the Server
Administrator event log.
NOTE: The Server Administrator event log file is named dcsys32.xml and is
located in the <install_path>\omsa\log directory. The default install_path is
C:\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt.
• On systems running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server, Citrix XenServer, VMware ESX, and VMware ESXi
operating systems, the event messages are logged in the operating system
log file and the Server Administrator event log.
NOTE: The default name of the operating system log file is /var/log/messages,
and you can view the operating system log file using a text editor such as vi or
emacs. The Server Administrator event log file is named dcsys<xx>.xml,
where xx is either 32 or 64 bit depending on the operating system. In the Red
Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Citrix XenServer and
VMware ESX operating systems, the Server Administrator event log file is
located in the /opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/openmanage directory. In the
VMware ESXi operating system, the Server Administrator event log file is
located in the
/etc/cim/dell/srvadmin/log/openmanage directory.