Element Management System

The Element Management System object is a top-level element in the EMS structure, corresponding to the EMS Server. There is a single Element Management System which is created before delivery and which you cannot destroy.

The Element Management System object allows you to enter a user-friendly name for the EMS Server, and provides facilities for collecting diagnostics information.

Object-Specific Actions
Package diagnostics To gather diagnostic information from the EMS into a single date and timestamped file, click on the 'Package diagnostics' pushbutton.

The Package diagnostics object-specific action is intended for use as advised by MetaSwitch Customer Support. (The file produced by performing this action may be required by MetaSwitch Customer Support to diagnose any problems with the operation of the VP3000.)

The information is collected in a single tar file in the EMS CRAFT user's home directory /var/opt/MetaSwitchEMS/craft/ftp/, containing all the diagnostic information generated since the last time this function was used. The filename includes the date (year, month, day) and time (hour, minute, second) at which the diagnostics information was gathered, and is of the form msdiags_EMS_yyyymmdd_hhmmss.tar.gz, for example msdiags_EMS_20020117_132005.tar.gz.

When you are requested by MetaSwitch Customer Support to provide diagnostics information, you should include all such diagnostics files in the directory, and not just the most recent file.


Parameter

Access

Description
EMS name Change A name to identify the EMS Server.
Diagnostic file collection status Read only Indicates if a diagnostics collection action is in progress. Values:
  • Idle
  • Saving system snapshot
  • Packaging trace files
  • Packaging snapshot files
  • Packaging snapshot and config files
  • Packaging failed - insufficient disk space
  • Packaging failed - general error
Diagnostic file collection log correlator Read only Identifier of the log message for the last failure to package diagnostics files.