Logging Information; A.4 Logging Information; Local Log File - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - SYSTEM PLANNING-DEPLOYMENT-BEST PRACTICES GUIDE 10.3 30-03-2010 System Planning Manual

Partitions
Content
Disk Setup for Linux
Table A-3
Partitions
/boot
/swap
/root
Content

A.4 Logging Information

The Message Logger component of Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management lets the other
ZENworks components such as zenloader and web services, ZENworks Management Daemon
(ZMD), Remote Management, and Policy Enforcers log messages to different output targets. The
output targets include the system log, local log, database, SMTP, SNMP trap, and UDP. For more
information, see the
Message Logger performs the following functions:
Writes messages to local log files.
Writes messages to a system log or event log.
Writes messages to the Management console.
Sends messages to the Management server.
Sends messages as SMTP mail to SMTP servers from the Primary Server.
Sends messages as SNMP traps to remote or local machines from the Primary Server.
Sends messages as UDP packets to UDP destinations.
Writes messages to the ZENworks database.
Automatically purges database entries from the ZENworks database.
Automatically acknowledges the messages in the ZENworks database.
The following sections contain more information:
Section A.4.1, "Local Log File," on page 98
Section A.4.2, "Installation Log File," on page 99
Section A.4.3, "Registration Log File," on page 99
A.4.1 Local Log File
On a managed device, the location of the local log file is:
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Size
40 GB and larger
Size
300 Mb
4 GB
20 GB
40 GB and larger
ZENworks 10 Configuration Management Message Logging
Contains
Mounted to
Installation directory/ZENWORKS/work/content-repo
Contains
Linux boot / ext2
Linux swap
Linux system / ext3
Mounted to /var/opt/novell/zenworks/content-
repo
Reference.