Messages Reference Guide

Introduction 11
The location of the event log file depends on the operating system you are using.
• In the Microsoft
®
Windows
®
2000 Advanced Server and Windows
Server™ 2003 operating systems, messages are logged to the system event
log and optionally to a unicode text file,
dcsys32.log (viewable using
Notepad), that is located in the
install_path \omsa\log directory.
The default
install_path is C:\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt .
• In the Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux and SUSE
®
Linux Enterprise Server
operating system, messages are logged to the system log file. The default
name of the system log file is
/var/log/messages . You can view the messages
file using a text editor such as vi or emacs.
NOTE: Logging messages to a unicode text file is optional. By default, the feature is
disabled. To enable this feature, modify the Event Manager section of the
dcemdy32.ini file as follows:
• In Windows, locate the file at <install_path>\dataeng\ini and set
UnitextLog.enabled=True . The default install_path is C:\Program
Files\Dell\SysMgt. Restart the DSM SA Event Manager service.
• In Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, locate the file at
<install_path>/dataeng/ini and set
UnitextLog.enabled=True . The
default install_path is /opt/dell/srvadmin. Issue the "/etc/init.d/dataeng restart"
command to restart the Server Administrator event manager service. This will
also restart the Server Administrator data manager and SNMP services.
The following subsections explain how to open the Windows 2000 Advanced
Server, Windows Server 2003, and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server event viewers.
Viewing Events in Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows
Server 2003
1 Click the Start button, point to Settings , and click Control Panel .
2 Double-click Administrative Tools , and then double-click Event Viewer .
3 In the Event Viewer window, click the Tree tab and then click System Log .
The
System Log window displays a list of recently logged events.
4 To view the details of an event, double-click one of the event items.
NOTE: You can also look up the dcsys32.log file, in the install_path\omsa\log
directory, to view the separate event log file. The default install_path is
C:\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt.