Lenovo x3650 M5 - Viewing Event Logs Without Restarting the Server

•IntegratedmanagementmoduleII(IMM2)eventlog:ThislogcontainsafilteredsubsetofallIMM,
POST,andsystemmanagementinterrupt(SMI)events.YoucanviewtheIMMeventlogthroughtheIMM
webinterface.Formoreinformation,see“Loggingontothewebinterface”onpage56
.Youcanalso
viewtheIMMeventlogthroughtheDynamicSystemAnalysis(DSA)program(astheASMeventlog).
FormoreinformationaboutIMMerrormessages,seeAppendixA“IntegratedmanagementmoduleII
(IMM2)errormessages”onpage315
.
•DSAeventlog:ThislogisgeneratedbytheDynamicSystemAnalysis(DSA)program,anditisa
chronologicallyorderedmergeofthesystem-eventlog(astheIPMIeventlog),theIMMchassis-eventlog
(astheASMeventlog),andtheoperating-systemeventlogs.YoucanviewtheDSAeventlogthroughthe
DSAprogram(see“Viewingeventlogswithoutrestartingtheserver”onpage76
).Formoreinformation
aboutDSAandDSAmessages,see“DynamicSystemAnalysis”onpage78andAppendixC“DSA
diagnostictestresults”onpage1055.
ViewingeventlogsthroughtheSetuputility
ToviewthePOSTeventlogorsystem-eventlog,completethefollowingsteps:
Step1.Turnontheserver.
Step2.Whentheprompt<F1>Setupisdisplayed,pressF1.Ifyouhavesetbothapower-onpasswordand
anadministratorpassword,youmusttypetheadministratorpasswordtoviewtheeventlogs.
Step3.SelectSystemEventLogsanduseoneofthefollowingprocedures:
•ToviewthePOSTeventlog,selectPOSTEventViewers.
•Toviewthesystem-eventlog,selectSystemEventLog.
Viewingeventlogswithoutrestartingtheserver
IftheserverisnothungandtheIMMisconnectedtoanetwork,methodsareavailableforyoutoviewoneor
moreeventlogswithouthavingtorestarttheserver.
IfyouhaveinstalledDynamicSystemAnalysis(DSA)Portable,youcanuseittoviewthesystem-eventlog
(astheIPMIeventlog),ortheIMMeventlog(astheASMeventlog),theoperating-systemeventlogs,orthe
mergedDSAlog.YoucanalsouseDSAPreboottoviewtheselogs,althoughyoumustrestarttheserverto
useDSAPreboot.ToinstallDSAPortableorcheckforanddownloadalaterversionofDSAPrebootCD
image,gotohttp://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=SERV-DSA.
IfIPMItoolisinstalledintheserver,youcanuseittoviewthesystem-eventlog.Mostrecentversions
oftheLinuxoperatingsystemcomewithacurrentversionofIPMItool.ForanoverviewofIPMI,goto
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/blueprints/andclickUsingIntelligentPlatformManagement
Interface(IPMI)onLinuxplatforms.
YoucanviewtheIMMeventlogthroughtheEventLoglinkintheintegratedmanagementmoduleII(IMM2)
webinterface.Formoreinformation,see“Loggingontothewebinterface”onpage56
.
Thefollowingtabledescribesthemethodsthatyoucanusetoviewtheeventlogs,dependingonthe
conditionoftheserver.Thefirstthreeconditionsgenerallydonotrequirethatyourestarttheserver.
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