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
The category options include Alerts, Cloud, Clustering, Config, Custom, Drive, Events, Filesystem, InterfaceGroup, Kms, Licensing, NFS, Network, Node, ObjectStorage, Org, Raid, Resources, S3, Security, Smb, System, Traces, Upgrade, and 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 container
Command: weka events list-local
Use the following command line to list recent events on the specific container running the command from.
This command is helpful for the following cases:
No connectivity to the central monitoring site
No connectivity from a specific container
Containers 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 container 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
Server'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>
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