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Oracle® Fabric OS 1.0.2 Administration Guide

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Updated: November 2016
 
 

Types of Log Files

Log files are stored in the /log directory.

[OFOS] ls /log
lost+found      user.log        osinstall.err           user.log.8.gz
coredumps       user-debug.log  user.log.2.gz           user.log.4.gz
btmp            daemon.log      user.log.3.gz           user.log.5.gz
ulog            lastlog         user-debug.log.2.gz     user.log.6.gz
apache2         kern.log        user-debug.log.3.gz     user.log.9.gz
wtmp            ib.log          user-debug.log.4.gz     osm.log.2.gz
postgresql      postgresql.log  user-debug.log.5.gz     user.log.10.gz
news            createdb.log    user-debug.log.6.gz     user.log.1.gz
ntpstats        osm.log         user-debug.log.7.gz     osm.log.1.gz
ulog-acctd      install.log     user-debug.log.8.gz     user-debug.log.1.gz
ksymoops        apache2.pid     user-debug.log.9.gz
xml             dumpster.log    user-debug.log.10.gz
dmesg           osinstall.out   user.log.7.gz

The last bootup data of the chassis is stored in the dmesg file:

[OFOS] cat /log/dmesg

Standard syslog messages go to the user.log file, where log rotation and auto-archive occurs for up to 10 gzipped files:

user.log
user.log.1.gz
user.log.2.gz
user.log.3.gz
user.log.4.gz
user.log.5.gz
user.log.6.gz
user.log.7.gz
user.log.8.gz
user.log.9.gz
user.log.10.gz

Following is the format of a log message:

[OFOS] date time hostname [process-ID]: [msg-level] object::text-message

For example:

Jun  6 00:00:01 iowa vnicmanager[12532]: [ERR] VNIC::VNICManager process_simm_message::  ENTRY

User debugging goes to the user-debug.log file, where log rotation occurs automatically:

user-debug.log
user-debug.log.1.gz
user-debug.log.2.gz
user-debug.log.3.gz
user-debug.log.4.gz
user-debug.log.5.gz
user-debug.log.6.gz
user-debug.log.7.gz
user-debug.log.8.gz
user-debug.log.9.gz
user-debug.log.10.gz

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