events reported about guest OS to HPVM log file

[SathiyaMoorthy]

Can somebody point me to a document where i can find the (important) events that are reported about guest OS to the host OS log file ?

And if possible explanation about the events.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

Two links to look at:
http://docs.hp.com/en/T2767-90141/rn01re19.html

http://docs.hp.com/en/T2767-90180/ch09s01.html

hpvmstatus command can be used with a shell script to cull events from a guest to a host system. Major failures or issues will be logged as well to /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

If you want events from the guest logs of a more routine nature to go from guest to host, you will have to configure syslog.conf for remote logging. This is done through the network interface.

Should be interesting to see how it works, since the NIC is really shared, but that is a fairly routine thing to do.

Can you be specific about what kind of events you are talking about?

SEP

[SathiyaMoorthy]

Thanks a lot for your help.

I believe i have to configure my syslog.conf in such a way that i get all events about guest OS to be reported to a central log ( am not able to test right now, as the machine is not accessible - will get back to you about how i did / about further clarification ).

Being specific about events is: I am going to administer a HPVM machine which might have 100s of Virtual Machine. I would like to see a single log file where all the events such as switched on / off of a virtual machine.

And all critical events such as 'unable to access this so going down'.... 'invalid MAC' .. 'Unsupported MAC'.. 'failed to power off' ..

Am i clear ?!

[SathiyaMoorthy]

I have got access to a HPVM, and played a little bit.

And this is my understanding now, all the guest OS events are logged into /var/opt/hpvm/common/hpvm_mon_log .

I am able to see two events mainly,
Guest 1 started:
Guest 2 terminated

What are all the other events a VM administrator has to really worry about ?

Note: More than using some commands to retrieve events, am interested in viewing a log file where the event is logged.

[SathiyaMoorthy]

can somebody guide me further in this please ?
may not be exact answers, at least some documents / references ?

[Dennis Handly]

>What are all the other events a VM administrator has to really worry about?

As SEP mentioned, most of the other events aren't unique to a VM and are just put into syslog.log.

[SathiyaMoorthy]

Or else, somebody is here can post their HPVMs syslog.log or command.log which has several incidents logged.