An HCP S Series Node maintains a log that contains messages about events that occur on the S Series Node. The event times associated with log messages are in UTC.
If you have the administrator, monitor, security, or service role, you can view the event log in the HCP S Series Management Console. You can also use the HCP S Series management API to retrieve the contents of the log. The event messages you can see depend on the roles associated with your user account.
If you have the administrator or service role, you can configure the S Series Node to send event log messages to one or more syslog servers.
Event log views
The Management Console provides several views of the event log:
- On the EVENTS page, you can choose to see all messages or only messages about events related to a particular aspect of the S Series Node (for example, security events (see below) or events related to data or database drives).
- On the Dashboard page, the event log includes only messages about major events (for example, user account creations but not user logins to the Console).
- On the HARDWARE OVERVIEW page, the event log includes only messages about events related to the S Series Node hardware components. On each page for an individual hardware component, the event log includes only messages about events related to that component.
- On the MAINTENANCE page, the event log includes only messages about events related to maintenance procedures.
- On the UPDATE page, the event log includes only messages about events related to software update procedures.
- On the SSL SERVER CERTIFICATES page, the event log includes only messages about events related to SSL server certificates.
To see more information about an event in the Management Console, including what action to take, if any, in response to the event, click the down arrow to the left of the event message.
When you use the management API to retrieve event log messages, you can use query parameters to specify which messages you want to see.
Security events
Security event messages report actions that require the security role (such as the creation of a user account). These messages also report attempts to log in to the HCP S Series Management Console with invalid credentials or to use the HCP S Series management API with invalid credentials. Only users with the security role can see messages about security events.