Dell EMC Metro node 7.0.1 Administrator Guide

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Event log locations

Metro node includes services, processes, components, and operating systems that write entries to various logs.

The system collects logs for:

Call-home events

The locations of various logs on the metro node management server are listed in the following table:

Table 1. Metro node log file locations
Log name	Description and location
Call home log	On a running management server: /opt/dell/vplex/ese/var/log/ESE.log /var/log/vplex/SupportAssist/SupportAssist.log
NSFW log	GeoSynchrony log. NSFW sends events to a journald service on the director. The journal service writes NSFW entries to the journal in /var/log/journal/. To view and perform analysis of NSFW logs, the following steps can be performed: In collect-diagnostics output: The journal is found voyager-diagnostics/journal/diagnostic-collection_journal.export. It requires systemd-journal-remote to convert to a journal. systemd-journal-remote --output=<name>.journal /path/to/journal.export It converts the .export into a file readable by journalctl. It is required to have a .journal suffix on the output file name. journalctl --file=<name>.journal <other-flags> It has all the same options available as any other journalctl command. journalctl --file=<name>.journal -u nsfw It limits the journal output to the nsfw unit. It is one example of the many journal flags that one can use.