Viewing File Contents From Oss; Logfile/Auditfile Rollover - HP NonStop SSL Reference Manual

Viewing File Contents from OSS

The log or audit files created by SSH2 are unstructured files and can be viewed from OSS with standard OSS tools such
as more or tail. Standard OSS filter tools such as grep, awk, or wc can also be applied. This allows users to make use of
the powerful Unix syntax for doing text processing.

Logfile/Auditfile Rollover

When logging to a file, HP NonStop SSL uses round-robin to switch to a new file. Logfile rollover applies both to
auditing (to the file configured with the AUDITFILE parameter) as logging (to the file configured with the LOGFILE
parameter).
A logfile rollover occurs when the logfile is greater than the size configured in the parameter LOGMAXFILELENGTH
or when the audit file is greater than the size configured in the parameter AUDITMAXFILELENGTH.
HP NonStop SSL will round-robin over at least 10 files. The number of files can be configured using the
LOGFILERETENTION (or AUDITFILERETENTION) parameter.
Archive files created during rollover will be created by appending a number to the log file name. The number of digits of
the number appended will be calculated depending on the number of files to keep.
With LOGFILERETENTION set to 10 (the default value), the archive files for a LOGFILE of SSLLOG will be called
SSLLOG0, SSLLOG1, ... SSLLOG9. With LOGFILERETENTION set to 1000, the archive files for a LOGFILE of
SLOG will be called SLOG000, SLOG001, ... SLOG999.
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