A P P E N D I X A | Intel® NetStructure™ 7190 |
System Log
The system log contains diagnostic messages from various software modules of the 7190. The system log memory is of limited size (512K bytes) and wraps around when the allocated space has been filled up.
Log Message Format
There are five components to each log message in this file.
(Date) | (Time) | (Hostname) | (Module) (Text) | |
Aug 2 | 14:28:03 | mstd1 | DNSD: | Starting.. |
The Date and Time fields indicates when the message was logged.
The Hostname field indicates the name of the 7190 which owns the log.
The Process field indicates which software module wrote the message to the log. The possible values for the Module field are DNSD, WDOG, NCA, BACKEND, DNS_STATS, and DBPRD.
The Text field contains the text of the message being logged.
Displaying Log Messages
The following command is used to display the contents of the system log.
config sys logs display [systemdnsntpstatsall]
Specify system to display the log messages from the BACKEND module only. Specify dns to display messages from the DNSD, NCA, WDOG and DBPRD modules. Specify stats to display messages from the DNS_STATS module. Specify all to display all messages in the log.
The DNSD module can be configured to log every dns request and response it processed. To enable this feature, use the following command.
config dns log [enabledisable]
Descriptions of the six modules and the messages they generate follow.
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