Increasing The Amount Of Information In Brightmaillog.log - Symantec 10490452 - Mail Security 8220 Administration Manual

Increasing the amount of information in BrightmailLog.log

If you have problems with the Control Center, you can increase the detail of the
log messages saved into
file. The
log4j.properties
for the Control Center, including Spam Quarantine. When you increase the
logging level of
log4j.properties
recommended to increase the maximum size of the
described below.
To increase the detail of logging messages saved into BrightmailLog.log
1 Open the following file in a text editor such as WordPad or vi:
On Solaris or Linux:
/opt/Symantec/SMSSMTP/tomcat/webapps/brightmail/WEB-INF/
classes/log4j.properties
On Windows:
C:\Program \
WEB-INF\classes\log4j.properties
2 Find the following line:
#log4j.rootLogger=WARN, file
3 Change the word
4 Find the following line:
log4j.appender.file.MaxFileSize=5MB
5
Change the to the desired number, such as
5MB
6 Find the following line:
log4j.appender.file.MaxBackupIndex=10
7 Change the number after
40.
This setting determines the number of saved
example, if you specify 2,
information,
BrightmailLog.log.1
BrightmailLog.log.2
BrightmailLog.log
log4j.appender.file.MaxFileSize
BrightmailLog.log.1
original
BrightmailLog.log.1
This number times the value of
determines the amount of disk space required for these logs.
8 Save and exit from the
9 On Windows, use Control Panel > Services to restart Tomcat.
BrightmailLog.log
BrightmailLog.log
, it creates a lot of log information, so it's
to .
WARN DEBUG
MaxBackupIndex
BrightmailLog.log
contains the next newest, and
contains the oldest information. When
reaches the size indicated by
, then it's renamed to
, and a new
BrightmailLog.log
is renamed to
log4j.appender.file.MaxFileSize
log4j.properties
Administering the system
Administering the Control Center
by changing settings in the
contains logging information
BrightmailLog.log
.
10MB
to the desired number, such as
BrightmailLog.log
contains the newest
file is created. The
BrightmailLog.log.2
file.
195
as
files. For
, etc.