Configuring Administration Settings : Configuring System Settings : Configuring Log Settings
  
Configuring Log Settings
You set up local and remote logging in the Logging page.
By default, the system rotates each log file every 24 hours or when the file size reaches one Gigabyte uncompressed. You can change this to rotate every week or month and you can rotate files based on size.
The automatic rotation of system logs deletes your oldest log file, labeled as Archived log #10, pushes the current log to Archived log # 1, and starts a new current-day log file.
To set up logging
1. Choose Administration > System Settings: Logging to display the Logging page.
Figure: Setting Logging
2. Under Logging Configuration, complete the configuration as described in this table.
Control
Description
Minimum Severity
Select the minimum severity level for the system log messages. The log contains all messages with this severity level or higher. Select one of these levels from the drop-down list:
•  Emergency - The system is unusable; action must be taken immediately.
•  Alert - Action must be taken immediately.
•  Critical - Conditions that affect the functionality of the SteelHead.
•  Error - Conditions that probably affect the functionality of the SteelHead.
•  Warning - Conditions that could affect the functionality of the SteelHead, such as authentication failures.
•  Notice - Normal but significant conditions, such as a configuration change. This is the default setting.
•  Info - Informational messages that provide general information about system operations.
Note: This control applies to the system log only. It does not apply to the user log.
Maximum Number of Log Files
Specify the maximum number of logs to store. The default value is 10.
Lines Per Log Page
Specify the number of lines per log page. The default value is 100.
Rotate Based On
Specifies the rotation option:
•  Time - Select Day, Week, or Month from the drop-down list. The default setting is Day.
•  Disk Space - Specify how much disk space, in megabytes, the log uses before it rotates. The default value is 16 MB.
Note: The log file size is checked at 10-minute intervals. If there is an unusually large amount of logging activity, it is possible for a log file to grow larger than the set disk space limit in that period of time.
Apply
Applies your setting to the running configuration.
To add a remote log server
1. Choose Administration > System Settings: Logging to display the Logging page.
Figure: Adding Remote Log Servers.
2. Complete the configuration as described in this table.
Control
Description
Add a New Log Server
Displays the controls for configuring new log servers.
Server IP or Hostname
Specify the server IP address.
Minimum Severity
Select the minimum severity level for the log messages. The log contains all messages with this severity level or higher. Select one of these levels from the drop-down list:
•  Emergency - The system is unusable; action must be taken immediately.
•  Alert - Action must be taken immediately.
•  Critical - Conditions that affect the functionality of the SteelHead.
•  Error - Conditions that probably affect the functionality of the SteelHead.
•  Warning - Conditions that could affect the functionality of the SteelHead, such as authentication failures.
•  Notice - Normal but significant conditions, such as a configuration change. This is the default setting.
•  Info - Informational messages that provide general information about system operations.
Add
Adds the server to the list.
Remove Selected
Select the check box next to the name and click Remove Selected.
To rotate logs
1. Choose Administration > System Settings: Logging to display the Logging page.
2. Under Log Actions click Rotate Logs. After the logs are rotated, this message appears:
“logs have been successfully rotated”
The log file #1 may data for a partial day because the logs have not completed the current 24-hour period.
Configuring Per-Process Logging
You can filter a log by one or more applications or one or more processes. This is particularly useful when capturing data at a lower severity level where a SCC might not be able to sustain the flow of logging data the service is committing to disk.
To filter a log
1. Choose Administration > System Settings: Logging to display the Logging page.
Figure: Per-Process Logging
2. Under Per-Process Logging, complete the configuration as described in this table.
Control
Description
Add a New Process Logging Filter
Displays the controls for adding a process level logging filter.
Process
Select a process to include in the log from the drop-down list:
•  alarmd - Alarm control and management.
•  cifs - CIFS Optimization.
•  cmcfc - CMC automatic registration utility.
•  rgp - SCC connector, which handles SCC appliance communication.
•  rgpd - SCC client daemon, the connection manager.
•  cli - Command-line interface.
•  mgmtd - Device control and management, which directs the entire device management system. It handles message passing between various management daemons, managing system configuration and general application of system configuration on the hardware underneath through the Hardware Abstraction Layer Daemon (HALD).
•  http - HTTP optimization.
•  hald - Hardware Abstraction Layer Daemon, which handles access to the hardware.
•  notes - Lotus Notes optimization.
•  mapi - MAPI optimization.
•  nfs - NFS optimization.
•  pm - Process Manager, which handles launching of internal system daemons and keeps them up and running.
•  sched - Process Scheduler, which handles one-time scheduled events.
•  virtwrapperd - VSP VMWare interface.
•  vspd - VSP Watchdog.
•  statsd - Statistics Collector, which handles queries and storage of system statistics.
•  wdt - Watchdog Timer, the motherboard watchdog daemon.
•  webasd - Web Application Process, which handles the web user interface.
•  domain auth - Windows Domain Authentication.
Minimum Severity
Select the minimum severity level for the log messages. The log contains all messages with this severity level or higher. Select one of these levels from the drop-down list:
•  Emergency - The system is unusable; action must be taken immediately.
•  Alert - Action must be taken immediately.
•  Critical - Conditions that affect the functionality of the SteelHead.
•  Error - Conditions that probably affect the functionality of the SteelHead.
•  Warning - Conditions that could affect the functionality of the SteelHead, such authentication failures.
•  Notice - Normal but significant conditions, such as a configuration change.
•  Info - Informational messages that provide general information about system operations.
Add
Adds the filter to the list. The process now logs at the selected severity and higher level.
Remove Selected
Select the check box next to the name and click Remove Selected to remove the filter.
3. Click Save to save your settings permanently.