# About Log Files

You can display the RSC event log and three types of server console logs.

To update the log display, click on Refresh. The time that the display was last refreshed appears in the lower-right area of the dialog box.

To search for a string, type it in the Find field. The search is case-sensitive; do not enclose strings in quotes. Click on Next to find the next occurrence of the string, or on Previous to find the previous occurrence.

## About Time Stamps

Time stamps in the RSC event log use RSC date and time; console logs use the server date and time. These times may not always be synchronized. To synchronize RSC time with the server time, log in the the server as superuser and use the command rscadm date -s.

## RSC Event Log

The RSC event log includes server power-on and power-off events (if it is possible for RSC to detect them), server reset events, and all RSC commands issued that change the state of the system.

## Console Logs

There are three separate console logs:

- Console Boot Log: contains POST, OBP, and UNIX boot messages received from the server for the most recent boot.
- Console Run Log: contains the most recent data received from the server operating system.
- Original Console Boot Log: contains POST, OBP, and UNIX boot messages for the first reboot after a power-on boot, the original boot.

Each buffer can contain up to 64 Kbytes of information. (On Sun Enterprise 250 servers, the original boot log and boot log buffers can contain up to 16 Kbytes of information.)

When the first power-on boot begins, RSC fills the original boot log with data from the server's console. When the original boot log fills up, RSC writes data to the original run log. When the original run log fills up, RSC overwrites old data in the original run log.

When RSC senses a server reset while writing to the original run log, RSC output switches to the boot log. After the boot log fills up, RSC output switches to the run log. When the run log fills up, RSC overwrites old data in the run log.

When RSC senses a server reset while in the current run log, RSC output switches to the current boot log again.

## Reset Console Logs

Use this option to make the console boot and run logs the "original" logs. This clears the current boot log and run log buffers.