1–Events and Event Logging
Displaying Events using the Event Browser
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Displaying Events using the Event Browser
Both Enterprise Fabric Suite and QuickTools have an event browser that displays
a list of events generated by the switches in the fabric and by the applications
themselves. Event browser messages are permanently discarded when you close
an Enterprise Fabric Suite or QuickTools session; however, you can save these
events to a file on the workstation before you close the session and read the file
later with a text editor or browser.
The information in the event browsers is presented in the following order: severity,
time, source, type, and description of the event. The maximum number of entries
allowed on a switch is 1,200. Both the Enterprise Fabric Suite and QuickTools
event browser can contain a maximum of 10,000 event messages. Once the
maximum is reached, the event list wraps, and the oldest events in the event list
are deleted.
Event browser entries from the switch use the switch time stamp. Event browser
entries from Enterprise Fabric Suite and QuickTools use the management station
and workstation time stamps, respectively. You can filter and sort the contents of
both event browsers.
The Event Browser begins recording when enabled and Enterprise Fabric Suite or
QuickTools is running. If the Event Browser is enabled using the Preferences
dialog, the next time Enterprise Fabric Suite or QuickTools is started, all events
from the switch log will be displayed. If the Event Browser is disabled when
Enterprise Fabric Suite or QuickTools is started and later enabled, only those
events from the time the Event Browser was enabled and forward will be
displayed.
Displaying the Events Using the Command Line Interface
When you log into a switch through Telnet, the command line interface
automatically displays the alarm history. You can use the Show Alarm or
Show Log command to display the alarm history at any time. New alarm
messages are displayed in the command stream as they occur.