HP NetServer AA 4000 HP Netserver AA Solution Administrator's Guide v - Page 51

Endurance Messages When it is operational, Endurance software continuously monitors the Endurance server. It reports status and error messages by logging most Endurance messages in the Windows event log. Endurance software displays some messages as they occur, either directly on the Windows blue screens during the text phase of boot or when a CE is being deconfigured; in pop-up windows; and for messages that pertain to the monitoring of the server, in a window on the Endurance Manager GUI. You can view logged Endurance messages using: • Windows Event Viewer that displays all messages reported to the Windows operating system, including those Endurance messages that are logged. • MTCLOG, an Endurance event log utility, that displays logged Endurance messages as they are being logged. Those Endurance messages that are logged in the Windows event log are logged as follows: • Each IOP's Windows System Event log contains the messages that were generated by that IOP. For example, IOP1 contains any messages generated by IOP1. • The CE's Windows System Event log contains both CE messages and the Endurance messages that are logged by each IOP. The IOP messages are logged to the CE's Event Viewer as follows: - If a CE is not active (for example, has not completely booted), the IOP messages are stored in a buffer on the IOP and sent to the CE when it becomes available. An IOP can accurately buffer up to 75 messages. - When any CE becomes active, the CE uploads the messages from the IOP event buffers, and logs those messages into the CE's Event log. Because of this process, in the CE Event Viewer, the timestamp information for messages originating in the IOPs is the time that the CE received the message; it does not necessarily indicate the time that the message occurred on the IOP. To confirm the time that the message occurred, check the event logs on the IOPs. In the CE Event Viewer, the message IOPn.MtcMon status: The boot process has completed for CE1 indicates the CE started uploading any IOP messages. Any subsequent messages were received from the IOPs without delay. Endurance messages logged to the Windows System Event log use the standard Windows event format. (Refer to Windows documentation for the detailed information on Event Viewer fields and descriptions.) Endurance messages are reported using the following icons and severity levels, described in Table 2-13. Endurance Overview 2-23