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The Status page list displays events in order of severity. You can view the events
or acknowledge them.
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Clicking View Events opens the appropriate log file page.
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Clicking Acknowledge Events removes the events from the Details list.
Acknowledging events of the highest severity changes the overall severity
level displayed in the Session pane.
Storage Management Appliance Logs
The Storage Management Appliance maintains the following logs that you can
use to review system operation.
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Event Log—Contains events reported by the Storage Management
Appliance, its core components and services, as well as by SAN devices and
storage management applications. See “
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Application Log—A Windows operating system log containing events
reported by applications or programs. Each application determines which
events to record. Management features are similar to the Event Log.
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System Log—A Windows operating system log containing events logged by
the operating system components. For example, the log can report that a driver
or other system component failed to load during startup. Management features
are similar to the Event Log.
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Security Log—A Windows operating system log containing security events
such as valid and invalid logon attempts as well as events related to resource
use such as creating, opening, or deleting files. Management features are
similar to the Event Log.
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Web Administration Log—A Windows operating system log containing a
list of separate log files. These files contain events that are logged by the Web
server about access to the administration website. Management features are
similar to the Backup Log.
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License Log—Contains events logged by the Storage Management Appliance
license server. You can download the file to your computer.
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Backup Log—Contains a list of separate log files—one for each backup
operation. After selecting a file you can view the contents or download the file
to your computer.