HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.X Diagnostics and System Error Messages Reference Guide (AA-RVHZB-TE, September 2005)

86 Introduction to System Messages
The fields in the error message are described in table below.
Table 3 Error message field description
Example Variable Name Description
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3
Date and Time Stamp The system time (UTC) when the message
was generated on the switch. The RASLog
subsystem will support an internationalized
timestamp format base on the “LOCAL”
setting.
[EM-1031] Message Module and
Message Number
Displays the message module and number.
These values uniquely identify each
message in the Fabric OS and are used to
reference the cause and actions in this
manual. Note that not all message numbers
are used and there can be gaps in the
numbering of messages.
4 Sequence Number This represents the error message position
in the log. When any messages are added
to the log, this number is incremented.
When this message reaches the last
position in the error log, and becomes the
oldest message in the log, it is deleted
when a new message is added.
In Fabric OS 5.x, the message sequence
number starts at 1 after a
firmwareDownload and will increase
up to a value of
2,147,483,647 (0x7ffffff).
The sequence number will continue to
increase beyond the storage limit of 1024
messages. The sequence number can be
reset to 1 using the errClear command.
The sequence number is persistent across
power cycles and switch reboots.
,<AUDIT>,
(not shown in the above
example)
Audit Flag Indicates that this message is an AUDIT
message for a security issue. The only
messages that have the audit flag set are
SEC-3001 through SEC-3017. For all other
messages, this field is blank; however, the
commas still appear, so many messages
have two commas separated by a blank
space.
ERROR Severity Level Displays the severity of the error in alpha
format:
1 = Critical
2 = Error
3 = Warning
4 = Info