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Event log format – TANDBERG Gatekeeper User Manual

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14.4.

Event Log Format

The event log is displayed in an extension of the UNIX syslog format:

date time host_name facility_name : message_details

where

date

the local date on which the message was logged

time

the local time at which the message was logged

host_name

the name of the system generating the log message

facility

the name of the program generating the log message. This will be

tandberg

for all messages originating from TANDBERG processes, but will

differ for messages from third party processes which are used in the

Gatekeeper product.

message_details

the body of the message (see below for further information)

For all messages logged from the

tandberg

process the field is structured to allow easy parsing. It

consists of a number of human-readable name=value pairs, separated by a space. The first field is

always:

Field

Example

Description

Event

Event=RegistrationRequest

The event which caused the log message to be

generated.

and the last fields of the message are always:

Field

Example

Description

Level

Level=1

The level of the event being logged.

Time

Time=2006/20/01-14:02:17

The UTC date and time at which the event was

generated.