Saving and Clearing the Event Log

Events are logged in the cache on the Adaptec advanced feature set RAID controller where they occurred. Some event information is also written to the metadata on the disk drives. This is generally temporary information regarding running tasks.

You could save the event log to an HTML file or to a .doc file. At a later time, you can access the file to view past network storage event history. You can also periodically save the event log and then clear the file to quickly view current events online.

To save and then clear the event log:

  1. Select any controller, drive, or array.
    Select a controller to display all the events for all devices attached to that controller.
    Select a logical device to view only those events for the selected logical device.

Caution: You will not see events for physical devices that are components of a logical device when only the logical device is selected.

  1. Click Events to display the Event Viewer for the selected device.

  2. From the Event Filter Threshold drop down list, select All (default).

  3. Click Save Log.

  4. Choose Save this file to disk and enter the name of the file. Save the file as a .doc or .html file.

  5. Optional. Choose Clear Log if you want to clear the log and display events listed since the last time that you cleared the log.

Caution: The event log is cleared immediately when you click Clear Log.