Black Box ET0100A manual Log File Management, Log file sizes, Log name File size, Internals logs

ETEP Configuration

Related topics:

●“IPv6 Addressing” on page 304

●“Logging Configuration” on page 321

●“Log Event Settings” on page 322

Log File Management

Each log file is a fixed length list of entries, as shown in Table 98. The log files rotate as they fill; they do not wrap. The most recent events are always written to a .log file in the format <logname>.log. When the first log file is full its contents are archived and rotated to logname.log.1.gz. New events continue to be written to the file the .log file. When the logname.log file fills a second time, its contents rotate to logname.log.1.gz and the contents of the previously designated .log.1.gz rotate to .log.2.gz. The log files rotate until five log files have been filled (.log, .log.1.gz, .log.2.gz.,

.log.3.gz, .log.4.gz). At that point the contents of the oldest log file, .log.4.gz, are deleted.

Table 98	Log file sizes
Log name		File size
audit.log		200k
dataplane.log		250k
distkey.log		250k
pki.log		250k
snmp.log		250k
system.log		500K
Internals logs
auth.log		100k
cron.log		10k
daemon.log		10k
kern.log		100k
syslog.log		100k
user.log		100k

When ETEMS retrieves the log files from the ETEP, it gets the current and archived log files as individual files. The concatenated file contains only the current log files. Archived log files are saved as compressed .gz files. To view the archived files, use gzip, WinZip, or 7-zip to decompress them.

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