Cisco Systems OL-24201-01 manual About Logging, ACS 4.x Versus ACS 5.3 Logging, 19-1

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Understanding Logging

This chapter describes logging functionality in ACS 5.3. Administrators and users use the various management interfaces of ACS to perform different tasks. Using the administrative access control feature, you can assign permissions to administrators and users to perform different tasks.

Apart from this, you also need an option to track the various actions performed by the administrators and users. ACS offers you several logs that you can use to track these actions and events.

This chapter contains the following sections:

•About Logging, page 19-1

•ACS 4.x Versus ACS 5.3 Logging, page 19-12

About Logging

You can gather the following logs in ACS:

•Customer Logs—For auditing and troubleshooting your ACS, including logs that record daily operations, such as accounting, auditing, and system-level diagnostics.

•Debug logs—Low-level text messages that you can export to Cisco technical support for evaluation and troubleshooting. You configure ACS debug logs, using the command line interface. Specifically, you enable and configure severity levels of the ACS debug logs using the command line interface. See Command Line Interface Reference Guide for Cisco Secure Access Control System 5.3 for more information.

•Platform logs—Log files generated by the ACS appliance operating system.

Debug and platform logs are stored locally on each ACS server. Customer logs can be viewed centrally for all servers in a deployment.

You can use the following ACS interfaces for logging:

•Web interface—This is the primary logging interface. You can configure which messages to log and to where you want the messages logged.

•Command line interface (CLI)—Allows you to display and download logs, debug logs, and debug backup logs to the local target. The CLI also allows you to display and download platform logs. See Command Line Interface Reference Guide for Cisco Secure Access Control System 5.3 for more information.

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