Installation Manual
332 Recovering and Troubleshooting the Managed System
Enabling/Disabling OEM Event Logs
The OEM event logs are displayed on the System Event Log page
automatically. The Advanced Settings button on the SystemsLogs tab
allows you to enable/disable the OEM event messages from the managed
system from appearing on the System Event Log page.
To disable the OEM Event Logs from appearing on the System Event Log
Page, select the OEM SEL Event Filter Enabled option.
NOTE: The the OEM SEL Event Filter Enabled option is not selected by default.
Using the Command Line to View System Log
racadm getsel -i
The getsel -i command displays the number of entries in the SEL.
racadm getsel <options>
NOTE: If no arguments are specified, the entire log is displayed.
NOTE: For more information on the options you can use, see getsel subcommand
in the RACADM Command Line Reference Guide for iDRAC6 and CMC
available on the Dell Support website at dell.com/support/manuals.
The clrsel command removes all existing records from the SEL.
racadm clrsel
Using the Work Notes
Work notes are notes or comments that a user can add. Any iDRAC user can
add a work note. Work notes cannot be deleted. You can view as many as 1000
work notes at a time. For quick reference, the latest ten work notes are
displayed on the iDRAC Home page.
NOTE: If number of work notes added are more than 800, the GUI page may take
few extra seconds to load the page. This is due to relatively huge amount of data
that gets transacted between GUI and iDRAC6.The newly added work notes may
not be displayed after the page is loaded. To resolve this, click Refresh.
The Work Notes page enables you to enter work notes into the Lifecycle Log.
The time stamp for the note is recorded automatically.
To access the Work Notes page, expand the System tree and click Systems
LogsWork Notes.