There are three major categories of the information collected by UCS Manager. These logs are accessible through the Admin tab in the navigation pane.
Perform the following procedure to access the logs:
- Log in to UCS Manager.
- Click to expand the Admin tab in the navigation pane.
- In the Admin tab, click on Faults, Events and Audit Log to expand its content.
- Click on the individual expanded tabs in the navigation pane or individual horizontal tabs in the work pane to expand the details of each category:
- Faults: The Faults tab shows all the faults occurring on all UCS components. Individual faults are shown for each component when you are in the components view and this tab provides details of all the faults:
You may check or uncheck individual categories to filter the results.
- Events: Events are all the operations happening on all components such as a port configuration, a service profile association, and a VLAN configuration:
- Audit Logs: The Audit Logs tab provides the audit trail, detailing which operations are carried out by which user. This log is helpful in establishing the accountability for the user actions:
By default, the Faults, Events and Audit Log is stored on the local UCS Fabric Interconnect. The default log settings are as shown in the following screenshot:
The default setting is to save all messages to a local file on Fabric Interconnect. In the Level section under Local Destinations, select the lowest message level and all the messages before that level will be automatically displayed.
It is also possible to show log messages on the Console or Monitor areas. The configuration option is the same; select the lowest level message and all messages before that level will be automatically displayed.
The following recipe shows how to direct the log message to the console:
- Log in to UCS Manager.
- Click on the Admin tab in the navigation pane.
- In the Admin tab, click on Faults, Events and Audit Log to expand its content.
- Click on individual expanded tabs in the navigation pane or individual horizontal tabs in the work pane to expand the Syslog category.
In the work pane, under the Console area, click on Enabled to enable the Admin State. Select the message with the desired lowest state using one of the three radio buttons: Emergencies, Alerts, or Critical:
It is also possible to configure three remote syslog servers for the collection of UCS logs. Syslog servers centralize the log collection.
Please use the following procedure to configure a remote syslog server:
- Log in to UCS Manager.
- Click on the Admin tab in the navigation pane.
- In the Admin tab, click on Faults, Events and Audit Log to expand its content.
- Click on the individual expanded tabs in the navigation pane or individual horizontal tabs in the work pane to expand the Syslog category.
- In the work pane, in the Remote Destinations area, click on Enabled to enable the Admin State.
- Select the message with the desired lowest state using the drop-down menu for the messages. The previous level messages will be automatically included.
- Configure the Hostname (or IP Address) for the remote syslog server and select the Facility level:
