5.6.1  Automatic Analysis

With the Director installed, automatic analysis of the system event log starts whenever you start your system. Because of this, SEA automatically analyzes events in the log file and generates reports as events occur.

The wsea command lets you interact with automatic analysis functions, including viewing the reports generated by automatic analysis and saving them to a file.

5.6.1.1  Viewing Automatic Analysis Reports

To view the active problem reports generated by automatic analysis, use the report command:

wsea report [outtext | outhtml outputfile]

Reports can be viewed on screen or saved to a file. If you do not include any output file parameter, the reports appear on screen. See Section 5.10.2 for more information about working with output files.

5.6.1.2  Logging Automatic Analysis Reports

You can tell SEA to automatically log generated problem reports into a \specific\ca\logs\prob.log file with the following command:

wsea log prob on | off

If a prob.log file already exists, new data from subsequent logging operations gets appended into the existing file. If you delete the prob.log file, SEA creates a new one as of the next logging operation.

5.6.1.3  Simulating Automatic Analysis

You can simulate automatic analysis with the following command:

wsea tes[t]

The command tests automatic analysis and the system's error logging facilities. See Section 7.7 for more information on simulating automatic analysis.

5.6.1.4  Resetting Automatic Analysis Results

Note


Resetting can significantly impact the results of future analysis.


The following command clears the automatic analysis database (only available in the new common syntax):

wsea res

The command removes any currently active callouts and any stored analysis data such as thresholding information. The FRU configuration data and the marker of the most recently analyzed event are not removed.

Section 7.3.2 contains additional detail about resetting the automatic analysis results and the impact that resetting can have on future analysis results.

5.6.1.5  Disabling and Enabling Automatic Analysis

To enable or disable automatic analysis, use the following command:

wsea auto [on | off]

The parameter "auto" can be shortened to "aut".

If the automatic analysis process is busy when you issue the wsea auto off command, the command will not take effect until the analyzer has finished processing events already in its queue. If desired, you can force the command to take effect immediately by stopping and restarting the Director (see Sections 3.8 and  3.7).

The wsea auto on command takes effect immediately.

Automatic analysis is enabled by default, but you may want to disable it if SEA is running on a platform such as HP-UX or Linux, where a native error log is not currently analyzed.

You can verify that automatic analysis is enabled by issuing the wsea test command and observing the Real Time Monitoring display in the web interface (see Section 6.4.4.1).