Access Log; Viewing The Access Log; Configuring The Access Log - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Viewing and Configuring Log Files
• The maximum age of log files. When a log file reaches this maximum age, it is
automatically deleted. The default is
the number of log files is set to

Access Log

The access log contains detailed information about client connections to the
directory. This section contains the following procedures:
•

Viewing the Access Log

•

Configuring the Access Log

Viewing the Access Log
To view the access log:
In the Directory Server Console, select the Status tab; then, in the navigation
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tree, expand the Logs folder, and select the Access Log icon.
A table displays a list of the last 25 entries in the access log.
To refresh the current display, click Refresh. Select the Continuous checkbox
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if you want the display to refresh automatically every ten seconds.
NOTE
To view an archived access log, select it from the Select Log pull-down menu.
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To display a different number of messages, enter the number you want to
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view in the "Lines to show" text box, and then click Refresh.
You can display messages containing a string you specify. To do this, enter
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the string in the "Show only lines containing" text box, and then click Refresh.
Configuring the Access Log
You can configure a number of settings to customize the access log, including
where the directory stores the access log and the creation and deletion policies.
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Continuous log refresh does not work well with log files over
10Mbytes.
month. This parameter is ignored in
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