Learn more about messages and how you can use them to identify
a problem.
Your server sends informational and inquiry messages that provide you with
important system information. Inquiry messages require you to respond. Informational
messages allow you to keep track of system activities, jobs, users, and errors.
Because messages provide information about your system, you should know how
to handle messages when detecting and correcting problems.
Depending on which operating system is reporting the error, and whether
you have a
Hardware Management Console (
HMC), the message is sent to one
of the following places:
- AIX® error messages
are displayed in a window on your console. They also are e-mailed to a specified
user or users. By default this is the root user, but notification might be
sent to any e-mail address of your choice. You can use the Automatic Error
Log and Notification task to configure this. For details, see Viewing AIX messages.
- HMC messages are sent
to an e-mail address (if set up) and reported to the Service Focal Point.
Refer to Using Service Focal Point for details. To view a list of HMC error codes, see HMC error codes.
- For Linux® messages,
see Viewing Linux messages.
- i5/OS® messages
are displayed in a window on your console, or can be viewed in
the i5/OS message queue
(QSYSOPR). For details, see Viewing IBM i5/OS messages.