McDATA® 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem Command Line Interface Guide (AA-RWEJA-TE, November 2006)

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10 Event log configuration
This section describes the following tasks:
• Starting and stopping event logging, page 87
• Displaying the event log, page 88
• Managing the event log configuration, page 90
• Clearing the event log, page 91
• Logging to a remote host, page 91
• Creating and downloading a log file, page 92
Event messages originate from the switch or from the management application in response to events that
occur in the fabric.
Events are classified by the following severity levels:
• Alarm–The alarm level describes events that are disruptive to the administration or operation of a fabric
and require administrator intervention. Alarms are always logged and always displayed on the screen.
Alarm thresholds can be defined for certain port errors to customize when to generate an alarm.
• Critical–The critical level describes events that are generally disruptive to the administration or
operation of the fabric, but require no action.
• Warning–The warning level describes events that are generally not disruptive to the administration or
operation of the fabric, but are more important than the informative level events.
• Informative–The informative level describes routine events associated with a normal fabric.
Starting and stopping event logging
Enter the Set Log Start command to start recording event message in the switch log as shown in the
following example:
McDATA4GbSAN (admin) #> set log start
Enter the Set Log Stop command to stop recording event messages in the switch Log as shown in the
following example:
McDATA4GbSAN (admin) #> set log stop
See the ”Set Log command” on page 158.