Promise Technology EX8650, EX8658, EX8654 Saving the Nvram Event Log, Clearing the Nvram Event Log

SuperTrak EX Series User Manual

Severity Definitions

Each event is marked with a level of severity.

•Information – Information only, no action is required

•Warning – User can decide whether or not action is required

•Minor – Action is needed but the condition is not serious at this time

•Major – Action is needed now

•Critical – Action is needed now and the implications of the condition are serious

•Fatal – Non-Recoverable error or failure has occurred

Saving the NVRAM Event Log

This function saves a copy of the NVRAM event log as a text file on the Host PC’s hard drive.

To save the NVRAM event log:

1.In Tree View, click the Subsystem icon.

2.From the dropdown menu on the Events tab, choose Subsystem Events in

NVRAM.

3.At the bottom of the window, click the Save Event Log button.

4.In the File Download dialog box, click the Save button.

5.In the Save dialog box, name the file, navigate to the folder where you want to save the log file, and click the Save button.

A text file of the event log is saved to the Host PC’s hard drive.

Clearing the NVRAM Event Log

This function clears the events from the NVRAM event log screen and from the NVRAM on the RAID controller. This function has no effect upon events reported in the WebPAM PRO Event Frame. “Viewing the Event Frame” on page 113.

To clear the NVRAM event log:

1.In Tree View, click the Subsystem icon.

2.From the dropdown menu on the Events tab, choose System Events in

NVRAM.

3.At the bottom of the window, click the Clear Event Log button.

4.In the Confirmation dialog box, type confirm and click the OK button.

All events are cleared from the screen and the RAID controller’s non-volatile RAM.

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