Viewing Reports and Logs : Viewing logs : Viewing system logs
  
Viewing system logs
You can view system logs in the Reports: Diagnostics: System Logs page. View System logs to monitor system activity and to troubleshoot problems. The most recent log events are listed first.
To customize system logs
1. Choose Reports > Diagnostics: System Logs to display the System Logs page.
2. Use the controls to customize the report as described in this table.
Control
Description
Show
Select one of the archived logs or Current Log from the drop-down list.
Lines per page
Specify the number of lines you want to display in the page.
Jump to
Select one of these options from the drop-down list:
Page—Specify the number of pages you want to display.
Time—Specify the time for the log you want to display.
Regular Expression Filter
Select one of these filtering options from the drop-down list:
Regular expression—Specify a regular expression on which to filter the log.
Error or higher—Displays Error level logs or higher.
Warning or higher—Displays Warning level logs or higher.
Notice or higher—Displays Notice level logs or higher.
Info or higher—Displays Info level logs or higher.
Go
Displays the report.
To print the report, choose File > Print in your web browser to open the Print dialog box.
To view a continuous log
1. Choose Reports > Diagnostics: System Logs to display the System Logs page.
2. Customize the log as described in To customize system logs.
3. Click Launch Continuous Log in the upper-right corner of the page.
If the continuous log doesn’t appear after clicking Launch Continuous Log, a pair of SteelHeads might be optimizing the HTTP traffic between the user's web browser and the primary or auxiliary interface of the SteelHead for which the user is viewing the log, and they’re buffering the HTTP response.

To display the continuous log, you can switch to HTTPS because the SteelHeads will not optimize HTTPS traffic. You might want to configure the other SteelHeads to pass-through traffic on the primary or auxiliary interface