Dell Brocade Adapters - Manual (Page 94)

70 Brocade Adapters Troubleshooting Guide
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Logs
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HCM logs
You can view data about adapter operation through HCM logs that display in HCM. These logs
display on the bottom of the HCM main window. Click the Master Log or Application Log to toggle
between the following logs:
• The Master Log displays informational and error messages during adapter operation. This log
contains the severity level, event description, date and time of event, and the function that
reported the event (such as a specific adapter port or remote target port).
• The Application Log displays informational and error messages related to user action in HCM,
discovery, or HCM application issues.
Master Log
The Master Log displays event information in seven fields:
• Sr No.
Sequence number assigned to the event when it occurred, in ascending order.
• Severity
Event severity level (informational, minor, major, or critical).
- Critical-level messages indicate that the software has detected serious problems that will
eventually cause a partial or complete failure of a subsystem if not corrected immediately.
For example, IO controller heartbeat failure is a critical error.
- Major messages represent conditions that do not impact overall system functionality
significantly.
- Minor messages highlight a current operating condition that should be checked or it might
lead to a failure.
- Information-level messages report the current non-error status of the system components,
for example, the online and offline status of a port.
• WWN
World-Wide Name of adapter where the event occurred.
• Category
The category or type of event. Categories define the component where events occur:
- ADAPTER - Events pertaining to the adapter.
- PORT - Events pertaining to a physical port.
- LPORT - Events pertaining to a specific logical port (one logical port always exists per
physical port).
- RPORT - Events pertaining to a specific remote port (could be an initiator or target).
- ETHPORT - Events pertaining to the Ethernet port.
- AUDIT - Audit events subcategory.
- IOC - Events pertaining to the I/O controller.
- ITNIM - Events pertaining to an initiator-target nexus.
- VLAN - Events pertaining to a virtual LAN.
- TEAM - Events pertaining to a team (link aggregation group).
• Subcategory of main category.