Setup Guide

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Reading the system messages
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The fields in the error message are described in Table 4.
Reading an audit message
Compared to RASLog error messages, messages flagged as AUDIT provide additional user and
system-related information of interest for post-event auditing and troubleshooting the problem.
The following example shows the format of the audit event message.
TABLE 4 System message field description
Variable name Description
Time Stamp The system time (UTC) when the message was generated on the switch. The
RASLog subsystem supports an internationalized time stamp format based on
the “LOCAL” setting.
Event ID The message module and number. These values uniquely identify each
message in the Fabric OS and reference the cause and actions recommended
in this manual. Note that not all message numbers are used; there can be
gaps in the numeric message sequence.
Sequence Number The error message position in the log. When a new message is added to the
log, this number is incremented by 1.
The message sequence number starts at 1 after a firmwareDownload and will
increase up to a value of 2,147,483,647 (0x7ffffff).
The sequence number continues to increase after the message log wraps
around, i.e. the oldest message in the log is deleted when a new message is
added. The sequence number can be reset to 1 using the errClear command.
The sequence number is persistent across power cycles and switch reboots.
Flags For most messages, this field contains a space character (null value)
indicating that the message is neither an AUDIT or FFDC message. Messages
may contain the following values:
• FFDC – Indicates that additional first failure data capture information has
also been generated for this event.
• FID – The Fabric ID that can range from 0 to 128. FID 128 means the
message was generated by the default switch instance.
• CHASSIS – The message that was generated by the chassis instance.
• SLOT number – Indicates the message was generated from slot # blade
main CPU.
• SLOT #/1 – Indicates the message was generated from slot # blade
Co-CPU.
Severity Level The severity of the error, which can be one of the following:
• 1 – CRITICAL
• 2 – ERROR
• 3 – WARNING
• 4 – INFO
Switch name The defined switch name or the chassis name of the switch depending on the
action; for example, high availability (HA) messages typically show the chassis
name, and login failures show the logical switch name.
This value is truncated if it exceeds 16 characters in length. Run either the
chassisName command to name the chassis or the switchName command to
rename the logical switch.
Event-specific information A text string explaining the error encountered and providing parameters
supplied by the software at runtime.