Q-Logic 59060-02 B manual Events and Event Logging, Understanding Severity Levels, Section

Section 2

Events and Event Logging

Messages originate from the switch or from the Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007 application in response to events that occur in the fabric.

2.1

Understanding Severity Levels

Events are classified by the following severity levels:

„Alarm – The alarm level describes events that are disruptive to the administration or operation of a fabric and require administrator intervention. Alarms are always logged and always displayed on the screen. Alarm thresholds can be defined for certain port errors to customize when to generate an alarm.

„Critical – The critical level describes events that are generally disruptive to the administration or operation of the fabric, but require no action.

„Warning – The warning level describes events that are generally not disruptive to the administration or operation of the fabric, but are more important than the informative level events.

„Informative – The informative level describes routine events associated with a normal fabric.

2.2

Displaying Events using the Event Browser

Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007 provides an Event Browser, which displays events from the switch event log and events that are generated by Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007 itself. The Event Browser formats events by severity, timestamp, source, type, and description. Events read from the switch event log obtain the timestamp from the switch clock, while events generated by Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007 use the workstation clock.

The Event Browser can maintain a maximum of 1500 events. Once the maximum is reached, the oldest events are discarded and replaced with new events. To display the Event Browser, open the Fabric menu and select Show Event Browser, or click the Events button on the tool bar. When you close Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007, all events in the Event Browser are lost. To save events to file before closing Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007, open the File menu from the Event Browser window and select Save As. For more information about the Event Browser, refer to the Switch Management User’s Guide for your switch.

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