Using the Monitor Interface › Finding Historical Console Log Data › By Time

By Time

To find a piece of historical data in the log files by time, use the FIND TIME command. This lets you move through the log data without having repeatedly to use the scrolling keys. The default direction is backwards.

You can specify the time in any of the following ways:

• DD-MMM-YYYY:HH:MM - causes the log file to be scrolled to the date and time specified
• hhmm - causes the log file to be scrolled to the time specified for the date shown in the banner log window for the currently selected system
• +h or -h - causes the log file to be scrolled forwards (+h) or backwards (-h) hours. You can omit the (+) sign for one or two digit numbers. Numbers larger than 99 are interpreted as a date or a time as appropriate - for example, 836 is interpreted as the time 08.36 rather than scroll forward by 836 hours. If you omit the (+) or (-), larger numbers are treated as absolute time.

To scroll to the log data for 09.00 on 8 September 2009 for the currently selected system, enter:

Command: FIND TIME 08-SEP-2009 09:00

To scroll to the log data for 09.00 for the date shown in the banner log window for the currently selected system, enter:

Command: FIND TIME 0900

To scroll forward by two hours in the log data for the currently selected system, enter:

Command: FIND TIME +2

To scroll backwards by two hours through the log data for the currently selected system, enter:

Command: FIND TIME -2

When you have log files for two systems on your screen, the FIND command works on the currently selected system.

If your time specification falls outside the range of the historical data available on your Console Manager host, then Console Manager scrolls to the beginning or end of the log data for that system as appropriate. You receive the following message to inform you of this:

Target time falls beyond beginning/end of current log data

In this case, use the REVIEW command to examine archived data to see data collected before the time specified. See the section, Reading Previously Archived Log Data, later in this chapter for more information.