User manual

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2 Maintenance for R8.2csi 555-233-119 Issue 1
April 2000
Maintenance Commands
2-69display initcauses
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The following example shows a typical vector event report.
Field descriptions
display initcauses
The
display initcauses
command displays a history of recovery steps taken by
the system. Each time the system performs some type of recovery (due to user
request or a hardware or software problem), the recovery information is stored.
The software error log also contains information pertaining to restarts. If a reset 4
(reboot) occurs, the software error log is also be stored. Information in the
software error log should be used in conjunction with information in the initcauses
log.
The history of the last 16 restarts performed by the system will be recorded to the
initcauses buffer in chronological order. This buffer fills an entire screen with
information if it is completely full. Power failures in the processor complex wipe
out the entire initcauses buffer.
Event Type
A number from 50000 to 50999 that identifies what type of vector event
occurred.
Event
Description
A text string describing the event.
Event Data 1
If in the format
number / number such as “200/10”, this indicates the
vector number and step number associated with the event. If in the
format “Split
number” such as “Split 2”, this indicates the split number.
Event Data 2
Additional data concerning the event encoded as a hex number.
First Occur
The date and time when the vector event first occurred.
Last Occur
The date and time when the vector event last occurred.
Evnt Cnt
The total number of times, up to 255, that vector events of this type
have occurred.
display events Page 1 SPE B
EVENTS REPORT
Event Event Event Event First Last Evnt
Type Description Data 1 Data 2 Occur Occur Cnt
50020 Call not queued 256/5 B 09/28/13:43 09/28/13:43 1
50541 Not a messaging split Split 89 4C 09/28/13:43 09/28/13:43 1