Listing log or dump files using the CLI

You can list log or dump files using the command-line interface (CLI).

Perform the following steps to list log or dump files:

  1. Open a command prompt window.
  2. You can issue any of the following commands to list error log files:
    1. svcinfo lserrlogbymdisk
    2. svcinfo lserrlogbymdiskgroup
    3. svcinfo lserrlogbyvdisk
    4. svcinfo lserrlogbyhost
    5. svcinfo lserrlogbynode
    6. svcinfo lserrlogbyiogrp
    7. svcinfo lserrlogbyfcconsistgrp
    8. svcinfo lserrlogbyfcmap
    9. svcinfo lserrlogbyrcconsistgrp
    10. svcinfo lserrlogbyrcrelationship

    These commands will list the error log by type. These commands will return a list of dumps in the appropriate directory. For example, issue the svcinfo lserrlogbymdisk command, displays the error log by MDisks.

    You can display the whole log or filter the log so that only errors, events, or unfixed errors are displayed. In addition, you can request the output to be sorted either by error priority or by time. For error priority, the most serious errors are the lowest-numbered errors. They are, therefore, displayed first in the table. For time, either the older or the latest entry can be displayed first in the output.

  3. You can issue any of the following command to list dump files.
    1. svcinfo lsconfigdumps
    2. svcinfo lserrlogdumps
    3. svcinfo lsfeaturedumps
    4. svcinfo lsiostatsdumps
    5. svcinfo lsiotracedumps
    6. svcinfo lssoftwaredumps
    7. svcinfo ls2145dumps

    These commands will list the dump file by type. These commands will return a list of dumps in the appropriate directory. For example, issue the svcinfo lsconfigdumps command, a list of dumps for configurations will be stored in the /dumps/configs destination directory.

    The software dump files contain dumps of the SAN Volume Controller memory. Your IBM® service representative might ask for these dumps to debug problems. The software dumps are large files (approximately 300 MB). Consider copying these files to your host using secure copy (scp) methods.

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