> # Viewing Logs from Device Manager

> You can view system messages from Device Manager if Device Manager is running from the same workstation as the DCNM-SAN Server. Choose Logs > Events > current to view the system messages on Device Manager. The columns in the events table are sortable. In addition, you can use the Find button to locate text within the table.

> You can view switch-resident logs even if you have not set up your local syslog server or your local PC is not in the switch's syslog server list. Due to memory constraints, these logs will wrap when they reach a certain size. The switch syslog has two logs: an NVRAM log that holds a limited number of critical and greater messages and a nonpersistent log that contains notice or greater severity messages. Hardware messages are part of these logs.

> Note To view syslog local logs, you need to configure the IP address of the DCNM-SAN Server in the syslog host.

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