HP-UX WBEM System Fault Management (SFM) Administrator Guide (September 2013)

This section discusses the following topics:
• “Overview” (page 68)
• “Searching Low Level Logs using Simple Search” (page 69)
• “Searching Low Level Logs using Advanced Search” (page 69)
• “Viewing List of Low Level Logs” (page 70)
• “Viewing Details of Low Level Logs” (page 71)
Overview
The low level log is required to view information about hardware details and system errors.
The Log Viewer enables you to view low level log information from the log database on a local
HP-UX system. The low level log information include Log Id, Log Index, Device Id, Device Type,
and Time of occurrence.
You can find the low level log information in both Current Log Database and Archive Log Database.
By default, the most recent low level log information is stored in the current log database.
The low level log information is automatically transferred from the Current Log Database to the
Archive Log Database based on either of the following criterion, or whichever occurs first:
• The age of the log is greater than 10 days. Logs older than 10 days are automatically stored
in the Archive Log Database.
• The page size of the database exceeds 140.
Records in the archive log database are saved for one year. The number of pages in the Archive
Log Database size is 340. These values are defined as XML elements surrounded by <DBConfig>
tag in /var/opt/sfm/conf/DBConfig.xml. If they are changed, enter the following command
at the HP-UX prompt:
# sfmconfig -c /var/opt/sfm/conf/DBConfig.xml
sfmDBUtil
The sfmDB utility is used to create a backup of the Postgres database. It can also be used to restore
the same.
/opt/sfm/bin/sfmDBUtil
Three operations can be performed using the utility:
• Backup: Back up is the process of taking backup of all the databases including current and
archived database. It is initiated by the administrator. The administrator must execute this
utility with the argument bkup with the destination file name. The data directory is considered
to be the destination.
/opt/sfm/bin/sfmDBUtil bkup dbbackup
• Restore: Restore is the process of restoring backed up data and it is initiated by the
administrator. The administrator must execute this utility with the argument restore with the
source file name. The data directory is considered to be the source.
/opt/sfm/bin/sfmDBUtil restore dbbackup
NOTE: Reconfigure the product SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM) (for HP
9000 systems) and PSB (for HP Integrity systems) to complete the DB restoration.
• Size: The size option displays disk space usage by databases and corresponding database
tables.
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