SAN File System provides various logging and tracing mechanisms for use with the metadata server and clients. Logging messages provide a trail of routine system activities, operations that occur in normal day-to-day use of the product; as such, they are of interest to system administrators, as well as to IBM® Support Center and trained service personnel. The contents of the logs, together with the observed symptoms, are used as a basis to begin isolating problems.
You can view the administrative, audit, cluster, and security logs from the SAN File System console or by using the catlog command; to clear the cluster and audit logs use the clearlog command. The SAN File System console also allows you to filter these logs based on severity and date.
Messages in the SAN File System console log views are linked to the Information Center. Clicking the message ID displays the Information Center with a description of the message and recommended actions to resolve the problem.