Saving Event log by a script

Question

I am looking to see if there is a way to save the event logs from each SP to a share where they can then be used with another log parsing appliance/application. I know you can manually save them by clicking the 'save' button but that can be very tedious when you have 7 arrays. There is a CLI command to view them (naviseccli -h SPA getlog -h -em ) but i cant seem to find a command to place that info into a txt file and then save it. Anyone know if this is possible.  The plan is to script this from a management host to a shared directory so the parsing program can access them. Thanks

dynamox · Accepted Answer

Can you redirect output from that command to a text file ?

kenn2347 · Answer

Ok that is cool. I also tried the -Overwrite y command and that worked. Now i am just trying to figure out how i can run this thing once a day but not keep getting that same old data.

There is a -date (start_date end_date) argument but to use it i would have to keep adjusting the script daily...

AranH1 · Answer

Nice, I didn't know that one dynamox wrote:use >> if you need to append to an existing file.

kenn2347 · Answer

Ok that worked:)  I dont use CLI  often so i dont know what all those keys do.   looks like that > is what i need. Thanks again guys

AranH1 · Answer

What dynamox meant was use an output modifier in your cli arguement.

if you use 'naviseccli -h SPA getlog -h -em > c:\event.txt' this will send the output to a text file and not display it in the cli window.

kenn2347 · Answer

Thats what i am trying to see if anyone knows.   I know for retrieving analyzer files, they have a -file & -location parameter but i cant get those to work with the getlog command.

dynamox · Answer

use >> if you need to append to an existing file.

kenn2347 · Answer

That argument is not in the CLI guide but when i do a getlog ?, it shows up and works. i was testing it by grabing a few dates at a time.

As for installing perl, the box it would need to be installed on also hosts SMC, SPA and the rest of our SAN managment software. So i am not sure if all that stuff works well together.

Plus the customer is looking for something that will give them events close to realtime and i dont think this way will work. They dont have ECC.

dynamox · Answer

Kenn, i just checked navicli guide and did not see that argument for getlog.  Can you install perl on this box ..i can help you write something in perl ?

dynamox · Answer

i have perl installed on boxes running ECC, SMC., SPA ..all get alone. If you need real time i guess you can configure emal alerts on the array itself ?

jpriceit · Answer

Sorry to bump an old thread but what syntax did you use for -date ?

christopher_ime · Answer

For example, to get the logs from yesterday 07/02/2013 00:00:00 to today 07/03/2013 (current or 23:59:59), the command would be:

naviseccli -h getlog -date 07/02/2013 07/04/2013

NOTE:

1) To get the logs from today 07/03/2013, you have to specify a day ahead: 07/04/2013 as the end date

2) You can't specify a specific time, just date

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