Veritas NetBackup™ Logging Reference Guide

Display all the attributes of the log messages

vxlogview -p 51216 -d all

Display specific attributes of the log messages

Display the log messages for NetBackup (51216) that show only the date, time, message type, and message text:

vxlogview --prodid 51216 --display D,T,m,x

Display the latest log messages

Display the log messages for originator 116 (nbpem) that were issued during the last 20 minutes. Note that you can specify -o nbpem instead of -o 116:

# vxlogview -o 116 -t 00:20:00

Display the log messages from a specific time period

Display the log messages for nbpem that were issued during the specified time period:

# vxlogview -o nbpem -b "05/03/15 06:51:48 AM" 
    -e "05/03/15 06:52:48 AM"

Display results faster

You can use the -i option to specify an originator for a process:

# vxlogview -i nbpem

The vxlogview -i option searches only the log files that the specified process (nbpem) creates. By limiting the log files that it has to search, vxlogview returns a result faster. By comparison, the vxlogview -o option searches all unified log files for the messages that the specified process has logged.

The -i option displays entries for all OIDs that are part of that process including libraries (137, 156, 309, etc.).

Search for a job ID

You can search the logs for a particular job ID:

# vxlogview -i nbpem | grep "jobid=job_ID"

The jobid= search key should contain no spaces and must be lowercase.

When searching for a job ID, you can use any vxlogview command option. This example uses the -i option with the name of the process (nbpem). The command returns only the log entries that contain the job ID. It misses related entries for the job that do not explicitly contain the jobid=job_ID.