Administration Guide - Avaya Support

MAS Event, Error & Alarm Logs
Displaying MAS Event & Error Logs
Note: See Appendix A, “MAS Alarms” for a description and repair procedure for
events, errors and alarm that can occur on the messaging application server.
The Avaya Messaging Application Server software provides two system logs related
specifically to events and errors.
! Administrator log This contains events and errors that will likely be of
more interest to system administrators.
! Maintenance events log This contains events and errors generally of
interest only to technical services and development personnel.
Procedure 1: Displaying an Event and Error Log on the MAS
1. On your Windows desktop, click the Start > Run menu command. The
system displays the Run dialog box.
2. In the Open field, type command or cmd and click OK. The system
displays the MS-DOS Prompt window.
3. At the DOS prompt, enter one of the following commands, depending on
the event and error log you want to view:
! To view the administrator log, enter displog -l admin.
! To view the maintenance events log, enter displog -l maint.
You may wish to limit the number of entries the system displays.
Otherwise, you may have to sift through hundreds or thousands of
entries. To do this, you can modify the displog command to retrieve
records for designated days or times, for example:
! If you wanted to view the events log for today from 3:00 p.m. to the
current time, you would enter: displog -l maint -d15:00.
! If you wanted to view the administrator log for all of today, starting
from midnight, you would enter: displog -l admin -dmm/dd/yy
(where mm/dd/yy is today’s date).
! If you wanted to view the events log for all events starting from a
certain day at 8:00 a.m. to the present, you would enter:
displog -l maint -d"mm/dd/yy 08:00" (where mm/dd/yy is the
starting date for the records you want to view).
Avaya Modular Messaging Release 3.1 with the Avaya MSS
February 2007 MAS Administration Guide
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