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Collect system logs with powershell

papersaltserver — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:56:31 GMT

Hello,

I want to collect logs from my FAS8040 in cluster mode for audit purposes. The only suitable cmdlet I've found is Get-NaSystemLog, which is not suitalbe for cluster mode. Is there any way to collect logs from powershel, without sending them via syslog, or email? Which cmdlet should I use?

Re: Collect system logs with powershell

asulliva — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 16:54:09 GMT

The equivalent to "event log show" on the cluster is the Get-NcEmsMessage cmdlet.

Hope that helps.

Andrew

Re: Collect system logs with powershell

GLENYU5820 — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 22:03:43 GMT

Hi Andrew, Possible to collect other logs beside ems ? such as sktlogd.log Thanks Glen

Re: Collect system logs with powershell

asulliva — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 17:44:38 GMT

Hi Glen,

Yes, you can use the "Read-NcFile" cmdlet so long as you know the full path to the file...

Read-NcFile -VserverContext $NodeName -Path /vol/vol0/etc/log/mlog/sktlogd.log

Vidad Cosonok has a very useful listing of the files in /etc/log and /etc/log/mlog here.

Hope that helps.

Andrew

Re: Collect system logs with powershell

GLENYU5820 — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 19:09:31 GMT

Hi Andrew, Confirmed it works. Thanks Glen