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

Viewing and Configuring Log Files

Viewing the Error Log

To view the error 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 Error Log icon.
A table displays a list of the last 25 entries in the error 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 error log, select it from the Select Log pull-down menu.
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To specify a different number of messages, enter the number you want to
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view in the "Lines to show" text box, and 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 click Refresh.

Configuring the Error Log

You can change several settings for the error log, including where the directory
stores the log and what you want the directory to include in the log.
To configure the error log:
In the Directory Server Console, select the Configuration tab. Then, in the
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navigation tree, expand the Logs folder ,and select the Error Log icon.
The error log configuration attributes are displayed in the right pane.
Select the Error Log tab in the right pane.
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To enable error logging, select the Enable Logging checkbox.
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Clear this checkbox if you do not want the directory to maintain an error log.
Error logging is enabled by default.
Enter the full path and filename you want the directory to use for the error log
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in the Log File field. The default path is:
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Continuous log refresh does not work well with log files over
10Mbytes.
serverRoot/slapd-serverID/logs/errors