VRTSexplorer Logs
Dear Experts
One of my client is running Veritas Cluster Server on Windows, Just to check how are things going on I collected VRTSexplorer logs
What I wanted to ask is just for the sake of Health Check of the enviorment which logs should I go through ?
I have checked engine log and events but they are very brief, its hard to follow them up if i wanted to view a whole month status.
Any recomendation of suggestion for easyness ?
Thanks
If there are lots of entries in the engine log then this could indicate an issue as in theory the only logs in the engine log for a cluster where the services remains online should be config changes and adminstrators logging onto the GUI - this is not always the case as some agents are poorly written and log every monitor cycle when there are no issues. If you just filter the logs by "ERROR", then this should show you if anything went wrong. I don't know much about the Windows event log, but I would think you could also filter this for just error logs.
I would recommend using VOM - this is a centralised management tool which must be installed on a Windows/Linux/Unix server such as Windows 2003/2008 or RedHat Enterprise Linux in your customers data centre and then the customer can access VOM via a web browser on their client desktop to operate the cluster and can set it up to receive real-time alerts and you can run reports monthly to see if there were any issues.
The VCS java GUI is been phased out so your customer may be using VOM already and if they are not, they will have to use it at some point unless they only administer cluster from the command line
Mike