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symevent commands

The symevent command track and monitoring the events on symmetrix arrays.

Below list contains some of the most useful symevent command examples.

• symevent -sid 1234 list

  List all the events happened such as informational, warnings,errors and fatal on array 1234.
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• symevent -sid 1234 list -dir

  List all the events on symmetrix array 1234 grouped by the reporting directors
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• symevent -sid 1234 list -error

  List all the events in symmetrix array with a severity of error or greater. This will display all error and fatal events. For eg. power supply fault is an error event.
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• symevent -sid 1234 list -fatal

  List all the fatal events in symmetrix array 1234. For eg. an event for a director failure is fatal.
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• symevent -sid 1234 list -fatal -start 05/26/2016

  List all the fatal events in symmetrix array 1234 on 26th may 2016.
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• symevent -sid 1234 list -start 05/26/2016:22:00:00 -end 05/26/2016:23:00:00

  List all the events starting from 22:00 to 23:00 on 26th may 2016.
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• symevent -sid 1234 list -v

  List all the events happened such as informational, warnings,errors and fatal on array 1234. "-v" option display this as a verbose style.
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• symevent -sid 1234 list -warn

  List all the events in symmetrix array with a severity of Warning or greater. This will display all warning,error and fatal events.
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• symevent -sid 1234 monitor

  Display the realtime events happening in array 1234.
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• symevent -sid 1234 monitor -i 2 -c 10

  Display the realtime events happening on array 1234 in an interval of 2 seconds for 10 times.
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