Brocade Fabric OS Message Reference - Supporting Fabric OS v5.3.0 (53-1000437-01, June 2007)

Fabric OS Message Reference 9
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Reading a RAS System Message
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AUDIT EVENT MESSAGES
Compared to RASLog error messages, messages flagged as AUDIT provide additional user and
system related information of interest for post event auditing and problem determination.
Audit event message format:
AUDIT, <timestamp>, [<Event ID>], <Severity>, <Event Class>, <User
ID>/<Role>/<IP address>/<Interface>/<app name>. <Admin Domain>/<Switch name>,
<Reserved field for future expansion>, <Event-specific information>
The following is a sample audit event message:
4 Sequence Number Represents the error message position in the log. When a new
message is added to the log, this number is incremented by 1.
When this message reaches the last position in the error log, and
becomes the oldest message in the log, it is deleted when a new
message is added.
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 will continue to increase beyond the
storage limit of 1024 messages. The sequence number can be
reset to 1 using the errClear command. The sequence number is
persistent across power cycles and switch reboots.
<NULL>
(blank)
Audit and/or
FFDC 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:
AUDIT indicates that this message is for a security issue.
FFDC indicates that additional first failure data capture
information has also been generated for this event.
AUDIT:FFDC indicates that the message is for a security issue and
additional FFDC information has been generated.
ERROR Severity Level Displays the severity of the error in alpha format:
1 = Critical
2 = Error
3 = Warning
4 = Info
switchname Switch name or
chassis name,
depending on the
action; for example,
high-availability
(HA) messages
typically show the
chassis name, and
login failures show
the logical switch
name.
This field displays the defined switch name or the chassis name of
the switch. 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.
Slot 7 ejector not
closed
Error Description This field displays a text string explaining the error encountered
and providing parameters supplied by the software at runtime.
TABLE 3 System Message Field Description (Continued)
Example Variable Name Description