Viewing SAM Failures Information

The Failures screen of the SAM Viewer displays the SAM Failures report, which contains detailed information about the down time of a single object. You can specify a time period for the statistics and an object about which to obtain the statistics. Additionally, you can update the statistics by clicking the Update View button.
To Specify a Time Period
Enter the starting date in the To: field and the ending date in the From: field. The date format is mm/dd/yy. When you re-specify a time period, press the Update View button to see the new report.
To Specify an Object
Click the down arrow on the left side of the Select Object: field. Holding down the mouse button, slide your cursor to the item you want to select. When you select a different object, a report for that object is displayed.
To Update the Reported Information
Click the Update View button at the top right of the screen.

Information Displayed

The Failures view displays the following identifying information: The body of the Failures report displays the following information about the selected object for the time period specified:
related object
The name of the object associated with the failure. The name has the format of object type.name. This name may be that of the selected object for which the Failures report was generated, or it may be the name of the supporting object that actually failed and caused the selected object's down event. The object type is one of CLUS, NODE, TIME, or APPL.
event id
A unique identifier for the event. You can use this id to specify an event record to alter with samlog command.
went down when
The time the failure occurred. This time appears as the date if the event did not occur on the day of the report. If the down event occurred on the day of the report, the time is noted by hours, minutes, and seconds using a twenty-four hour format.
duration for object type.name
The amount of time that the object type.name was down because of this down event. SAM calculates this duration from data in the event log.
planned?
A YES- or NO-populated field that indicates whether the down event was planned or not. By default, all down time is logged in the event log as unplanned. You can annotate the event log file to specify that down time is planned using the samlog -i evid -p PLANNED command. Total planned and unplanned down time appears at the bottom of the report.
msg description
The short descriptive text associated with the event. SAM notes a basic reason for the event, if possible. You can annotate the event log file to specify more descriptive text for an event using the samlog -i evid msg command.

Additional SAM Viewer help: