Artesyn ViewCheck on ATCA-7370 Installation and Use (April 2014) - Manual (Page 31)

Installation of ViewCheck
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The ViewCheck RPM also modifies the system configuration files such as /etc/crontab for
rotating ViewCheck daemon service logs, and /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf to
post critical syslog messages to ViewCheck Daemon.
The crontab is modified to schedule log rotation with an entry in configuration file as shown
in the following. The log rotation configurations files diagLib_log, diagResults_log,
diagTestRaw_log
, diagShowCmds_log, and diagCore_log are located at
/etc/logrotate.d
.
* */1 * * * root /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
The syslog-ng.conf is modified to post all the critical messages to a pipe from which the
diagcore daemon receives them to send notifications to user. The objects that are modified are
as following
diagLib_log,
diagCore_log
,
diagResults_log,
diagTestRaw_log
,
diagShowCmds_log
/etc/logrotate.d
Configuration files required for log
rotation of service logs
Testutilities /opt/diagnostics/tools/d
iagtestutils/
Utilities and Tools used by ViewCheck
application
Table 4-1 RPM Files (continued)
File Name Path Descriptions
Even if user modifies the crontab, this entry should not be removed.