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Forinformationonviewingthelogmessages,seeViewingthesystemeventlogonpage 101.
Eventsmaybeclearedfromtheshelf’sSELwhentheShelfManagerisrestarted,depending
ontheconfigurationexplainedinConfiguringthesystemeventlog(SEL)onpage 45
Domain event log (DEL)
HPIprovidesadomaineventlogthatcontainsmostoftheeventsthatareintheshelf’sSEL.
Thedomaineventlogincludesonlyeventsthatareassociatedwithasensorforwhichthe
IPMCpresentsanSDR.Thisexcludesalleventsassociatedwithvirtualsensor0xff,suchasthe
systemprogresscheckpointeventsthataregeneratedastheRadis ysfrontmodulesbootup.
TheseeventscanbefoundintheSEL.
Thedomaineventlogiseasytoreadandaccess.Itcanbeaccessedbyasystemmanager
programmatically,andcanalsobehelpfulfortroubleshootingpurposeswhenaccessed
interactively.
EacheventisidentifiedbytheresourceIDofthemodulethatgeneratedit.Users
canaddeventstothedomaineventlog.Eventsarekeptinthedomaineventlog(evenifthe
conditionisresolved)untilthelogiserasedortheShelfManagermoduleisrestarted.
Forinformation
onviewingthelogmessages,seeViewingthedomaineventlogonpage 101.
Toconfigurethebehaviorofthedomaineventlogwhenitreachesitscapacity,see
ConfiguringHPIdomaineventlogsettingsonpage 48.Forgeneralinformationaboutthe
domaineventlog,seetheeventlogmanagementsectionoftheSAFHPISpecification.