Displaying the activity log

Display the activity log to see all IBM® Serviceable Event Provider activity for a designated time period.

About this task

You can use the IBM Serviceable Event Provider command-line interface to view the activity log. Only the serviceable problems are logged in the Activity Log. The serviceable problems can be ELOG or DIAG_ENCL (enclosure events from Power KVM). The location of the activity log is configurable and can be specified in the configuration file. For more information about configuration settings, see Updating the Configuration file. Log files are rolled back depending on the Max size property in the configuration file.

Note: The Activity log is not updated for any of the events, if the Serviceable Event Provider is inactive.

To display or view the activity log, follow these steps:

Procedure

Log in to the IBM PowerKVM system.
In command line, go to /var/seprovider/logs/.
Run the command cat activity.log, the activity log is displayed.

Results

The syntax for an entry in the log file for the serviceable event is <error occured timestamp> <source of error> <error log ID> <license log ID> <src> <error type> <action needed>

Example

Sep 17 17:18:40 localhost SE[24838]:LID[502cdb2ib]::SRC[B181953F]::Platform Firmware::Informational Error::Service action and call home required ::alert transmission to <9.57.20.130:163> is successful