Use Log Viewer to view application and command line notices (for example, session open, session close, authentication success, and authentication failure), and to manage log files.

(If you selected Log Viewer in the right pane, double-click Log Viewer to start the Log Viewer tool.)

By default, entries for the current management domain (single server or name service) are displayed.

Note: Log Viewer entries are generated by events logged to the WBEM logging service and are stored by default in /var/sadm/wbem/log. To identify the origin of the logged information, look in the Source column of Log Viewer.

Log Viewer entries are not the same as those written by syslog, which captures messages generated by various system processes and writes those messages out to the device console, to system log files, or to both. Furthermore, Console Events (see below) differs from both Log Viewer and syslog, and provides information about events between the Solaris Management Console and its tools. That information is lost once you close the SMC.