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Figure 17: SS7 Master Event Log
Sample
The oldest log file in the master log directory is automatically deleted when the size
of that directory reaches 8,192 kbytes (default configuration). The system
administrator is responsible for moving the log files to a backup medium before they
are deleted. A sample command to increase the
mlog
directory size to 32,768 kbytes
is shown below:
MML_TH> mlogd -m 32768
5.4 View the SS7 Alarm Files
The alarm process collects, analyzes, logs, and displays alarm messages that are
generated by the user/kernelspace components of the Distributed7 system software
and/or user application programs running under the Distributed7 environment. An
alarm message includes:

an alarm type (a hexadecimal identifier for each alarm made up of group
number, module number, and alarm number)

an alarm level (Info, Minor, Major, Critical, Fatal)

an ASCII description of the alarm (maximum of 128 Bytes)
The alarm log files are located at ―/export/home/access/RUN/alarmlog‖. Each
filename is prefixed with ―AccessAlarms‖. The file extension is a number. The
higher the number in the extension, the newer the alarm file.
A list of alarm conditions that may be encountered by the Distributed7 system
software is provided in the form of a set of alarm text files that are located at
―/export/home/access.1.3.0.12/RUN/config/ALARM‖. A list of individual alarm
groups is provided within the
alarmGroups
file, located in the same directory.
Sample alarm file entry:
Timestamp Process and
hostname
Process ID Source code
and line ID
Event level Event text