Manage events using the CLI

This page describes how to manage events using the CLI.

With the CLI, you can:

View events

Command: weka events

Use the following command line to list events in the Weka cluster:

weka events [--num-results num-results] [--start-time <start-time>] [--end-time <end-time>] [--severity severity] [--direction direction] [--fetch-order fetch-order] [--type-list type-list] [--exclude-type-list exclude-type-list] [--category-list category-list] [--cloud-time] [--show-internal] [--raw-units] [--UTC]

Parameters

Name

Type

Value

Limitations

Mandatory

Default

num-results

Integer

Maximum number of events to display

Positive integer.

0 shows all events.

No

50

start-time

String

Include events that occurred at this start time and later

Format: 5m, -5m, -1d, -1w, 1:00, 01:00, 18:30, 18:30:07, 2018-12-31 10:00, 2018/12/31 10:00, 2018-12-31T10:00, 9:15Z, 10:00+2:00

No

-365 days

end-time

String

Include events that occurred up to this time

Format: 5m, -5m, -1d, -1w, 1:00, 01:00, 18:30, 18:30:07, 2018-12-31 10:00, 2018/12/31 10:00, 2018-12-31T10:00, 9:15Z, 10:00+2:00

No

Set to a time represents 'now'

severity

String

Include events with this level of severity and higher

'info', 'warning', 'minor', 'major' or 'critical'

No

INFO

direction

String

Sort events by ascending or descending time

'asc' or 'dsc'

No

asc

fetch-order

String

Fetch from end-time backwards or from start-time forwards

'fw' or 'bw'

No

bw

type-list

String

Filter events by type (can be used multiple times)

Use weka events list-types to see available types

No

None

exclude-type-list

String

Filter-out events by type (can be used multiple times)

Use weka events list-types to see available types

category-list

String

Include only events matching the defined category

Categories can be Alerts, Cloud, Clustering, Drive, Events, Filesystem, IO, InterfaceGroup, Licensing, NFS, Network, Node, ObjectStorage, Raid, Statistics, System, Upgrade, User

No

All

cloud-time

Boolean

Query and sort results by the digested time in the cloud

No

False

show-internal

Boolean

Also displays internal events

No

False

raw-units

Boolean

Print values in raw units (bytes, seconds, etc.)

No

Human-readable format, e.g 1KiB 234MiB 2GiB

UTC

Boolean

Print times in UTC

No

Host's local time

View events of a specific host

Command: weka events list-local

Use the following command line to list recent events on the specific host running the command from.

This command is helpful for the following cases:

  • No connectivity to the central monitoring site

  • No connectivity from a specific host

  • Hosts that are not part of the cluster

weka events list-local [--start-time <start-time>] [--end-time <end-time>] [--next next] [--stem-mode] [--show-internal] [--raw-units] [--UTC]

Parameters

Name

Type

Value

Limitations

Mandatory

Default

start-time

String

Include events that occurred at this start time and later

Format: 5m, -5m, -1d, -1w, 1:00, 01:00, 18:30, 18:30:07, 2018-12-31 10:00, 2018/12/31 10:00, 2018-12-31T10:00, 9:15Z, 10:00+2:00

No

-365 days

end-time

String

Include events that occurred up to this time

Format: 5m, -5m, -1d, -1w, 1:00, 01:00, 18:30, 18:30:07, 2018-12-31 10:00, 2018/12/31 10:00, 2018-12-31T10:00, 9:15Z, 10:00+2:00

No

Set to a time represents 'now'

next

String

Identifier to the next page of events

As returned in the previous call to weka events list-local

No

stem-mode

Boolean

Displays events when the host has not been attached to the cluster

No

False

show-internal

Boolean

Also displays internal events

No

False

raw-units

Boolean

Print values in raw units (bytes, seconds, etc.)

No

Human-readable format, e.g 1KiB 234MiB 2GiB

UTC

Boolean

Print times in UTC

No

Host's local time

Trigger a custom event

Command: weka events trigger-event

It can be useful to mark specific activities, maintenance work, or important changes/new usage of the system, and see that as part of the system events timeline.

To trigger a custom event, use weka events trigger-event <text>

Related topics

List of events

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