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8: Devices
SLC™ Console Manager User Guide 96
Device Port Commands
The following CLI commands correspond to the Device Ports page. For more information, see 15:
Command Reference.
set deviceport port (on page 223)
set deviceport global (on page 225)
set command (on page 222)
connect listen (on page 217)
connect direct (on page 216)
show deviceport global (on page 226)
show deviceport port (on page 226)
show deviceport names (on page 226)
show portstatus (on page 226)
show portcounters (on page 226)
show portcounters zerocounters (on page 226)
Device Ports – Logging
The SLC products support port buffering of the data on the system's device ports as well as
notification of receiving data on a device port. Port logging is disabled by default. You can enable
more than one type of logging (local, NFS file, email/SNMP, USB port, or PC Card) at a time. The
buffer containing device port data is cleared when any type of logging is enabled.
Local Logging
If local logging is enabled, each device port stores 256 Kbytes (approximately 400 screens) of I/O
data in a true FIFO buffer. You may view this data (in ASCII format) at the CLI with the show
locallog command or on the Device Ports – Logging web page. Buffered data is normally stored
in RAM and is lost in the event of a power failure if it is not logged using an NFS mount solution. If
the buffer data overflows the buffer capacity, only the oldest data is lost, and only in the amount of
overrun (not in large blocks of memory).
NFS File Logging
Data can be logged to a file on a remote NFS server. Data logged locally to the SLC console
manager is limited to 256 Kbytes and may be lost in the event of a power loss. Data logged to a file
on an NFS server does not have these limitations. The system administrator can define the
directory for saving logged data on a port-by-port basis and configure file size and number of files
per port.
The directory path must be the local directory for one of the NFS mounts. For each logging file,
once the file size reaches the maximum, a new file opens for logging. Once the number of files
reaches the maximum, the oldest file is overwritten. The file naming convention is: <Device Port
Number>_<Device Port Name>_<File number>.log.
Examples: 02_Port-2_1.log
02_Port-2_2.log