HP Multi-Site Traffic Director sa9200 - Manual (Page 174)

A P P E N D I X A HP Multi-Site Traffic Director Server Appliance SA9200 User Guide
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System Log
The system log contains diagnostic messages from various software
modules of the SA9200. The system log memory is of limited size
(512K bytes) and wraps around when the allocated space has been
filled up.
Log Message
Format
There are five components to each log message in this file.
(Date) (Time) (Hostname) (Module) (Text)
Aug 2 14:28:03 mstd1 DNSD: Starting..
The Date and Time fields indicates when the message was logged.
The Hostname field indicates the name of the SA9200 which owns
the log.
The Module field indicates which software module wrote the
message to the log. The possible values for the Module field are
DNSD, WDOG, NCA, BACKEND, DNS_STATS, and DBPRD.
The Text field contains the text of the message being logged.
Displaying
Log
Messages
The following command is used to display the contents of the system
log.
config sys logs display
[all|dns|ntp|system|monitor|stats]
Specify all to display all messages in the log. Specify dns to display
messages from the DNSD, NCA, WDOG and DBPRD modules.
Specify system to display the log messages from the BACKEND
module only. Specify monitor to display monitoring messages for
VIPs. Specify stats to display messages from the DNS_STATS
module.
The DNSD module can be configured to log every DNS request and
response it processed. To enable this feature, use the following
command.
config dns log [enable|disable]
Descriptions of the six modules and the messages they generate
follow.