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Network Installation Management Guide and Reference
Viewing Installation, Configuration, and Boot Logs
After installing a standalone machine, use the
showlog operation to check the installation results by viewing the
installation, boot, and configuration logs. One of several log types can be
viewed by specifying one of the following as the value of the log_type
attribute to the showlog operation:
devinst |
Output from the installation of key system and device-driver
software |
niminst |
Output from the installation of user-specified software (including
installation of NIM client software during a bos_inst operation) |
bosinst |
Output from the BOS installation program |
boot |
The machine's boot log |
lppchk |
A log of the output from the lppchk operation executed on a
standalone NIM client |
script |
Output from any configuration script resources allocated for a
bos_inst operation |
nimerr |
Errors encountered during execution of the nim command. |
By default, the showlog operation
applied to a standalone machine displays the niminst log and shows the
output logged when software was last installed on the machine using NIM. The
last entry is also shown by default for the script and lppchk
logs. The entire contents of the niminst, script, and
lppchk logs can be displayed by assigning the full_log attribute a
value of yes when executing the showlog operation. The
entire log is shown for all other log types.
From Web-based System Manager
- From the NIM container, select a target machine (master, standalone,
diskless, or dataless), or in the NIM Resources container, select a target
SPOT.
- From the Selected menu, select Troubleshooting > Show NIM
Logs.
- Use the dialog to select the log you want to examine.
From SMIT
- Enter the smit nim_mac_op fast
path to view a machine's log, or enter smit nim_res_op to view a
SPOT's log.
- Select the object name of the machine or
SPOT whose log you want to view.
- Select showlog from the list of
operations.
- Select the log type to be viewed.
- Specify if the full log should be viewed (only
applicable to script, lppchk, and niminst logs).
From the Command Line
To view a log on a standalone machine or
SPOT, enter:
nim -o showlog -a LogType=value
ObjectName
where LogType represents the log
you want to view, and ObjectName is the name of the machine or
SPOT whose log will be viewed.
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