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September 12th, 2009 07:00

Symapi log & storapid.log0

Does symapi .log file logs all the commands that we run via SE?.

Also what does storapid.log0 contains. I can only see one storapid.log0 file.

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September 14th, 2009 01:00

symapi.log files contain interaction between symcli commands and the code running in the storage. If a command fails due to a syntax error or due to failed local test (within S.E.), symapi.log won't contain details. Thus don't expect to find ALL commands in symapi logs.
Of course you can increase verbosity but usually you'll find all messages/questions/answers/commands between S.E. and the box.

storapid.log describes activity of storapid daemon. Since S.E. 6.x you have a set of daemons that manages interaction between S.E. and the box. storapid is simply one of the daemons. Try running "stordaemon list" to have a list (and corresponding status) of all available daemons.

S.E. have a number of variables/options to fine-tune log behaviour. The default behaviour for daemons is to simply overwrite older logs. The default behaviour of symapi is to switch logfiles every day keeping all past files. You can obviously change these defaults if you have space on your drives ;-)

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September 14th, 2009 10:00

So where to find which all steps or commands that we executed on SE.

Is this a normal symapilog file, because what ever commands I run it has the same contends every day. Last time we had a symconfigure session failure(ce rebooted the SP) it was not logged in the symapilog.
09/10/2009 11:31:54.738   4996   2708 EMC:SYMMASK               SymDevMaskControl    Finished backup of the device masking database on the symmetrix with status: 0 (The function call was successful), line 15213

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September 15th, 2009 01:00

You can use symaudit command to find a list of all commands executed against a given DMX from ANY host.
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