→ Applies to: SynetoOS 4.x

Step 1. Connect to SynetoOS appliance via SSH as admin

ssh admin@<your_ip_address_or_hostname>

Step 2. Become a super user

sudo su

Step 3. Navigate to this folder

cd /var/log

Step 4. Search for FailOver/FailBack logs with this command

cat /var/log/app.log | grep DatastoreFailover

SynetoOS manages multiple log files. According to the date/time of the event, you may need to check multiple log files.

Step 5. Open log files

cat /var/log/app.log.0 | grep DatastoreFailover

Log files are saved with extensions "log.0", "log.1", etc.

Step 6. Uncompress and open older log files

gzcat /var/log/app.log.0 | grep DatastoreFailover

Extremely old files are compressed and saved with extensions “log.0.gz”, “log.1.gz”, etc.