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:
- Object type and name
- Current time
- Reporting period, including the years, days, hours, minutes, and seconds covered by the report
- Period begin and end dates
- Log format version
- Times of first and last event in the report
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: