Viewing installation, configuration, and boot logs
After installing a standalone machine, use the showlog operation to check the installation results by viewing the installation, boot, and configuration logs. You can view these logs from the SMIT, or the command line.
One of several log types can be viewed by specifying one of the following as the value of the log_type attribute to the showlog operation:
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| devinst | Output from the installation of key system and device-driver software |
| niminst | Output from the installation of user-specified software (including installation of NIM client software during a bos_inst operation) |
| bosinst | Output from the BOS installation program |
| boot | The machine's boot log |
| lppchk | A log of the output from the lppchk operation executed on a standalone NIM client |
| script | Output from any configuration script resources allocated for a bos_inst operation |
| nimerr | Errors encountered during execution of the nim command. |
By default, the showlog operation applied
to a standalone machine displays the niminst log and shows
the output logged when software was last installed on the machine
using NIM. The last entry is also shown by default for the script and lppchk logs.
The entire contents of the niminst, script, and lppchk logs
can be displayed by assigning the full_log attribute a value
of yes when executing the showlog operation.
The entire log is shown for all other log types.