DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2 Maintenance for R8.2csi
555-233-119 Issue 1
April 2000
Maintenance Commands
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The system creates the reports from the logs of the maintenan ce subsystem. The
subsystem monitors the system hardware and lo gs problems as errors or alarms.
The type of alarm indicates the imp act of the probl em, as defined below:
Warning alarm—A minor interference which does not not iceably impair servic e.
Minor alarm—A problem which c ould disab le a local area of the system and
noticeably impair servic e.
Major alarm—A problem which widely degrades the system and seriously
impairs service. The system automatica lly calls INADS to report major alarms.
Resolved alarm—A problem which has been corrected, and the system is
correctly functioning . The system stamps resolved alarms with the date and time
the problem was correc ted. The system handles any errors associated with the
alarms as “resolved.”
System Reboots and the Alarm Logs
The system saves the Alarm and Error logs to the memory c ard if any of the
following events occur:
—The
save translation command is exec uted.
— Translations are saved as part of scheduled maintenance.
— A reboot takes place.
— The PPN is about to lose all power after having been on battery backup .
The attempt to save the alarm and error logs m ay be unsuccessful if the MSS is
not available.
Whenever the system reboots, the logs are restored from the SPE disk that
bec omes a ctiv e wit h the r eboo t. Sin ce th e log s are s aved to th e dis k on th e SPE
that was active

before

the reboot, the versions restored at reboot time may not be
current. This condition occ urs if:
— The attempt to save at reboot did not s ucceed.
— The SPE d isk th at is r eboo ted i s not the sa me di sk to whic h the l ogs were
last saved.
In such a case, the logs will not contain the most recent errors and alarms. To
determine if the restored logs are c omplete, look for indic ations that would have
preceded the reb oot.