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40 SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server Service Manual • June 2011
▼ View System Message Log Files
The error logging daemon, syslogd, automatically records various system warnings,
errors, and faults in message files. These messages can alert you to system problems
such as a device that is about to fail.
The /var/adm directory contains several message files. The most recent messages
are in the /var/adm/messages file. After a period of time (usually every week), a
new messages file is automatically created. The original contents of the messages
file are rotated to a file named messages.1. Over a period of time, the messages are
further rotated to messages.2 and messages.3, and then deleted.
1. Log in as superuser.
2. Type the following command:
3. If you want to view all logged messages, type the following command:
Detecting Faults (ILOM Event Log)
Certain problems are recorded in the ILOM event log but not posted to the list of
faults displayed by the ILOM show faulty command. Inspect the ILOM event log
if you suspect a problem, but no entry appears in the ILOM show faulty command
output.
Related Information
■ “Diagnostic Flowchart” on page 13
■ “View ILOM Event Log” on page 41
■ “ILOM-to-ALOM CMT Command Reference” on page 58
■ SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server Installation and Setup Guide
■ SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server Administration Guide
■ Integrated Lights Out Manager 3.0 Supplement for the SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server
# more /var/adm/messages
# more /var/adm/messages*