{"id":31123,"date":"2013-06-06T13:04:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T13:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.open-e.com\/?p=31123"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:42:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:42:33","slug":"understanding-log-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/understanding-log-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Log Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tLogs are there to give us the ability to monitor our storage system activities ensuring its normal operations. Whether or not, you\u2019re the person that analyzes logs on a daily basis &#8211; it&#8217;s always good to know what kind of information you can get out of them.<\/p>\n<p>A sample raw log file provides an enormous amount of information and analyzing it is not always an easy task. In the second part of the webcast (watch the first part <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open-e.com\/service-and-support\/library\/webcasts-and-videos\/?click=1241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>), our moderator presents some of the simple techniques of analyzing logs, that will help you identify the common issues occurring within the storage system.<\/p>\n<p>Check out what has been discussed this time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to download logs in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open-e.com\/products\/open-e-data-storage-software-v7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open-E DSS V7<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Example of different types of log files<\/li>\n<li>Which log files are important and how to analyze them?<\/li>\n<li>Sample troubleshooting techniques for identifying critical issues<\/li>\n<li>How to enable remote console access in Open-E DSS V7?<\/li>\n<li>How to access and configure tuning options for your iSCSI Targets?<\/li>\n<li>How to identify bad NICs in your system?<\/li>\n<li>What kind of information you can get from User activity logs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click on the button below to watch the webcast:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.open-e.com\/service-and-support\/library\/webcasts-and-videos\/?click=1341\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28533\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.open-e.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Play-now-Button.png\" alt=\"Play now - Button\" width=\"200\" height=\"53\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t tried our software yet, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open-e.com\/download\/open-e-data-storage-software-v7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download <\/a> a free 60 day trial from our website now!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logs are there to give us the ability to monitor our storage system activities ensuring its normal operations. Whether or not, you\u2019re the person that analyzes logs on a daily&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[765,28],"tags":[378,379,466],"class_list":["post-31123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-e-legacy-products","category-raid","tag-log-file","tag-logs","tag-open-e-dss-v7"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55189,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31123\/revisions\/55189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}