Use Log Viewer to view application and command line notices (for example, session open, session close, authentication success, and
authentication failure), and to manage log files.
(If you selected Log Viewer in the right pane, double-click Log Viewer to start the Log Viewer tool.)
- Double-click a log entry to display its details.
- Click Action->Log File Settings to specify log file
parameters and the log file directory.
- Click View->Filter to display subsets of your log
entries.
- Click View->Sort By to sort displayed entries. You
can also click any column heading to sort the list.
- Click Action->Back Up Now to back up and close the current log file and start a new log file.
- Click Action->Open Log File to open a backed up log file. To delete a backed up log file, open it and then click Action->Delete Log File. Note that you can only delete backed up log files.
By default, entries for the current management domain (single server or name service) are displayed.
Note: Log Viewer entries are generated by events logged to the WBEM logging service and are stored by default in /var/sadm/wbem/log
. To
identify the origin of the logged information, look in the Source column of Log Viewer.
Log Viewer entries are not the same as those written by syslog
, which captures messages generated by various system processes and writes those messages out to the device console, to system log files, or to both. Furthermore, Console Events (see below) differs from both Log Viewer and syslog
, and provides information about events between the Solaris Management Console and its tools. That information is lost once you close the SMC.