Reference Guide
• AC Power Cord Sensor — Monitors the presence of AC power for an AC power cord.
• Hardware Log Sensor — Monitors the size of a hardware log.
• Processor Sensor — Monitors the processor status in the system.
• Pluggable Device Sensor — Monitors the addition, removal, or configuration errors for some
pluggable devices, such as memory cards.
• Battery Sensor — Monitors the status of one or more batteries in the system.
• SD Card Device Sensor — Monitors instrumented Secure Digital (SD) card devices in the system.
Sample Event Message Text
The following example shows the format of the event messages logged by Server Administrator.
EventID: 1000
Source: Server Administrator
Category: Instrumentation Service
Type: Information
Date and Time: Mon Oct 21 10:38:00 2002
Computer: <computer name>
Description: Server Administrator starting
Data: Bytes in Hex
Viewing Alerts and Event Messages
An event log is used to record information about important events.
Server Administrator generates alerts that are added to the operating system event log and to the Server
Administrator alert log. To view these alerts in Server Administrator:
1. Select the System object in the tree view.
2. Select the Logs tab.
3. Select the Alert tab.
You can also view the event log using your operating system’s event viewer. Each operating system’s
event viewer accesses the applicable operating system event log.
The location of the event log file depends on the operating system you are using.
• On systems running the Microsoft Windows operating systems, event messages are logged in the
operating system event log and the Server Administrator event log.
NOTE: The Server Administrator event log file is named dcsys32.xml and is located in the
<install_path>\omsa\log directory. The default install_path is C:\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt.
• On systems running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Citrix XenServer,
VMware ESX, and VMware ESXi operating systems, the event messages are logged in the operating
system log file and the Server Administrator event log.
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