Viewing Alerts and Event Messages

An event log is used to record information about important events.

Server Administrator generates alerts that are added to the operating system event log and to the Server Administrator alert log. To view these alerts in Server Administrator:

  1. Select the System object in the tree view.
  2. Select the Logs tab.
  3. Select the Alert tab.

You can also view the event log using your operating system’s event viewer. Each operating system’s event viewer accesses the applicable operating system event log.

The location of the event log file depends on the operating system you are using.

  • On systems running the Microsoft Windows operating systems, event messages are logged in the operating system event log and the Server Administrator event log.
  • On systems running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Citrix XenServer, VMware ESX, and VMware ESXi operating systems, the event messages are logged in the operating system log file and the Server Administrator event log.