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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 le 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 le is named dcsys64.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, and VMware ESXi operating systems, the event

messages are logged in the operating system log le and the Server Administrator event log.

NOTE

: The default name of the operating system log le is /var/log/messages, and you can view the operating system log le

using a text editor such as vi or emacs. The Server Administrator event log le is named dcsys<xx>.xml,where xx is 64 bit

operating system. In the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating systems, the Server

Administrator event log le is located in the /opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/openmanage directory. The Server Administrator

event log le is located in the /etc/cim/dell/srvadmin/log/openmanage directory.

Logging Messages to a Unicode Text File

Logging messages to a Unicode text le is optional. By default, the feature is disabled in the Server Administrator. To enable this feature,

modify the Event Manager section of the dcemdy <xx>.ini conguration le where xx is a 64 bit as follows:

• On systems running Microsoft Windows operating systems, you can locate the conguration le in the <install_path> \dataeng\ini

directory and set the property UnitextLog.enabled=true. The default install_path is C:\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt. Restart

the DSM SA

Event Manager service to enable the setting. The Server Administrator Unicode text event log le is named dcsys64.log

and is located in the <install_path>\omsa\log directory.

• On systems running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating systems, you can locate the

conguration le in the /opt/dell/srvadmin/etc/ srvadmin-deng/ini directory and set the property UnitextLog.enabled=true. Run

the /etc/init.d/dataeng restart command to restart the Server Administrator Event Manager service and enable the setting. This also

restarts the Server Administrator Data Manager and SNMP services. The Server Administrator Unicode text event log le is named

dcsys <xx>.log where xx 64 bit operating system and is located in the /opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/ openmanage directory.

• On systems running the in ESXi operating system the dcemdy64.ini le is located under /etc/cim/dell/srvadmin/srvadmin-deng/ini/

and the dcsys <xx>.log where xx 64 bit operating system and is located under /etc/cim/dell/srvadmin/log/openmanage/

The following sub-sections explain how to launch the Windows Server 2008, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and

VMware ESXi event viewers.

Introduction