Cisco MDS-9124 Troubleshooting Guide - Page 45

Chapter 1 Troubleshooting Overview Troubleshooting with Logs Send documentation comments to [email protected] Troubleshooting with Logs Cisco SAN-OS generates many types of system messages on the switch and sends them to a syslog server. These messages can be viewed using Fabric Manager or the CLI to determine what events may have led up to the current problem condition you are facing. This section contains the following topics: • Viewing Logs with Fabric Manager, page 1-13 • Viewing Logs with the CLI, page 1-13 • Viewing the Log from the Supervisor, page 1-14 Viewing Logs with Fabric Manager Fabric Manager and Device Manager present concise views of the generated system messages and other logged events: • In Device Manager, click Logs to set up and view logs. • In Fabric Manager, select the Logs tab at the bottom of the fabric pane to view log information. • Learn to use Threshold Manager to alert you that critical statistics have exceeded a set threshold. Viewing Logs with the CLI The following CLI commands are available to access and view logs on a switch: Musky-9506# show logging ? console Show console logging configuration info Show logging configuration last Show last few lines of logfile level Show facility logging configuration logfile Show contents of logfile module Show module logging configuration monitor Show monitor logging configuration nvram Show NVRAM log server Show server logging configuration Carriage Return Example 1-1 shows an example of the show logging CLI command output. Example 1-1 show logging Command Musky-9506# show logging server Logging server: enabled {10.91.51.204} server severity: critical server facility: user OL-9285-05 Cisco MDS 9000 Family Troubleshooting Guide, Release 3.x 1-13