Displaying the MAS alarm logs

The Avaya 3420 Messaging Application Server provides two system logs related specifically to alarms. The active alarms log contains information about alarms that are currently active on the system and is one of your primary lines of attack when problems occur. The resolved alarms log contains a history of and information about alarms that have been raised and then resolved on the system. This log can be useful in analyzing problems and trends in the system.

To display an alarm log on the MAS

On the desktop taskbar, click Start.

From the Start menu, click Run.

The system displays the Run dialog box.

In the Open field, type command or cmd.

Click OK.

The system displays the MS-DOS Prompt window.

At the DOS prompt, enter one of the following commands, depending on the alarm log you want to view:

To view active alarms, enter displog -l act

To view resolved alarms, enter displog -l res

When using these commands, it is often helpful to limit the number of entries the system displays by only requesting the entries for a certain period of time. Otherwise, you may have to sift through hundreds or even thousands of entries to find the ones that you are interested in.

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 resolved alarms log for today from 3:00 p.m. to the current time, you would enter: displog -l res -d15:00

If you wanted to view the resolved alarms log for all of today, starting from midnight, you would enter: displog -l res -dmm/dd/yy

where mm/dd/yy is today’s date.

If you wanted to view the resolved alarms log for all events starting from a certain day at 8:00 a.m. to the present, you would enter:
displog -l res -d"mm/dd/yy 08:00"

where mm/dd/yy is the starting date for the records you want to view.

Note: These time limiters are not generally useful for the active alarms log, but you can use them if you so wish.

For more information about the alarms and events displayed in these logs, see MAS Alarms.