On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Chris Thompson wrote:
stephen@netapp.com (Stephen Manley) writes: [...]
No. Unfortunately, in current Ontap releases, dump information does not get written to the messages file.
RFE 2345 has been filed on this problem. Currently the bug description is not available on NOW, but is slated to be, soon.
For now, you either want to capture dump logs by running via rsh, or if you use an NDMP client, they generally capture the dump messages in their logs.
Is the proposal to copy (some of) the dump messages to the syslog facility? Always, or as an option?
It's important that the output of a rsh'd "dump" continues to come back down the stdout channel, as post-analysing it is the only way to know whether the dump has worked. [Cue to resume the November 2000 thread about "rsh/ssh return codes"!]
The plan is actually to record dump events to a log file. The events include when a dump started, when it switched tape, when it finished, whether it completed successfully, etc. It does not intend to log the entire dump message output, and the messages will likely to come down the rsh stdout pipe as usual.
=) Steve