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3.5 Command Log

In addition to displaying progress messages, NDMA records information about its operation by use of the NDMA command log, /opt/sna/ndm/ndm.log. This file is created each time NDMA is started (overwriting any existing file); to retain information about previous runs of the program, rename this file or copy it to a different directory before starting NDMA.

The command log is an ASCII text file, and can be viewed either with a standard ASCII text editor or by using standard operating system commands such as cat. It contains an entry for each Netview DM command processed by NDMA since NDMA was last started, with information about the type of command, the name of the file associated with it, and whether the command succeeded.

Each line of the file contains the following data:

Command

The name of the Netview DM command processed (such as REPLACE or INITIATE).

File name

The name of the file that was processed by the command. This is the full path name after mapping from the NetView DM file name to the Solaris path name (for more information, see Setting Up the NDMA Symbolic Path File).

Success / Failure

This field indicates whether the command was successful.

Date and time

The date and time at which the command started.

The following example shows the logs for:

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