FUJITSU SPARC T5440 - Manual (Page 62)

36 SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server Service Manual • July 2009
Related Information
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■ “Detecting Faults Using LEDs” on page 30
■ “ILOM-to-ALOM CMT Command Reference” on page 53
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■ SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server Administration Guide
■ Integrated Lights Out Manager 3.0 Supplement for SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server
▼ Check the Message Buffer
1. Log in as superuser.
2. Issue the dmesg command:
The dmesg command displays the most recent messages generated by the system.
▼ View System Message Log Files
The error logging daemon, syslogd, automatically records various system
warnings, errors, and faults in message files. These messages can alert you to system
problems such as a device that is about to fail.
The /var/adm directory contains several message files. The most recent messages
are in the /var/adm/messages file. After a period of time (usually every week), a
new messages file is automatically created. The original contents of the messages
file are rotated to a file named messages.1. Over a period of time, the messages are
further rotated to messages.2 and messages.3, and then deleted.
1. Log in as superuser.
2. Type the following command:
3. If you want to view all logged messages, type the following command:
# dmesg
# more /var/adm/messages
# more /var/adm/messages*