Error log monitoring

XorMon presents system error log of machines where is installed the OS agent.

The AIX OS Agent uses teh 'errpt' command its log source.
It requires AIX / Linux OS agent 8.10-0+.

You can find collected logs under each virtual machine or consolidated all under Total.

In case of SAN (FC adapter) based errors, some additional information will be included which are not in 'errpt' output
  • Local WWPN
  • Remote WWNN
  • Remote WWPN

Event exclude

You can exclude some specific mesages to be sent to XorMon server
Use /opt/lpar2rrd-agent/aixerrpt.conf to exclude them on the OS agent side

Examples

Total per all machines
AIX error log monitoring

Per a machine
AIX LPAR error log monitoring
XorMon displays the system log of attached HMC (IBM Power Systems Hardware Management Console) devices.

In fact, this HMC command is used:
lssvcevents -t hardware

HMC system log monitoring
The Linux OS Agent uses the 'dmesg' command as its log source.
Access to 'dmesg' is restricted by default for regular users and has to be enabled.

Enable access to 'dmesg' (as root)
su -
echo -e "\n# Access to dmesg\nkernel.dmesg_restrict = 0" > /etc/sysctl.d/99-dmesg.conf
sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/99-dmesg.conf
Test (as xormon)
su - xormon
dmesg

Logs are available for Linux systems running on the following platforms: IBM Power Systems, Linux, VMware, Nutanix, Proxmox
They can be found in the global menu (Agent Error Log) and on the "Log" tab for each machine.

Only the following severity levels are collected:
  • emerg
  • alert
  • crit
  • err
  • warn
Lower priority messages are ignored.

Messages can be filtered by severity:
Linux dmesg error log monitoring
This feature is not currently supported; it will be available in future versions.
This feature is not currently supported; it will be available in future versions.