Displaying MAS Alarm Logs

The Avaya Messaging Application Server software provides two system logs related specifically to alarms.

Active alarms log This contains information about alarms that are currently active on the system. It is one of your primary lines of attack, when problems occur.

Resolved alarms log This 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.

Procedure 1: Displaying an Alarm Log on the MAS

On your Windows desktop, click the Start > Run menu command. The system displays the Run dialog box.

In the Open field, type command or cmd and 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.

You may wish to limit the number of entries the system displays. Otherwise, you may have to sift through hundreds or thousands of entries. 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.