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This profiles allows you to configure the event Log configuration table for configuration items related to each Event Log type.

To View Type Admins

On SBC main screen, go to Administration > Accounting and Logs > Event Log > Type Admin. The Type Admin window is displayed.

Event Log - Type Admin

By default only ten entries are displayed in a view. You can choose the number of entries to be displayed under the Show entries drop down box. 

To Edit Type Admins

To edit any of the created Type Admins, click the radio button next to the specific admin name.

Event Log - Highlighted Type Admin

The Edit Selected Type Admin window is displayed below.

Event Log - Edit Selected Type Admin 1

The following parameters are displayed:

Type Admin

Parameter

Description

Type

The type of the event log. Each type has separate configuration parameters and logs to a separate file.

State

The requested state of the given Event Log type. The values are:

  • Enabled
  • Disabled
  • rollfile

File Count

The number of event log files that will be maintained for this event type. All event types will overwrite the oldest file when the file count is exceeded. A warning will be issued when the count approaches the maximum. Enter a value between the range 1and 1024

File Size

The maximum size (in KB) that a single event log file will ever grow to. Enter a value between in the range (256..65535) KB

Message Queue Size

The number of event log message entries to buffer before writing them to disk. The size may be a value between 2 and 32 (inclusive). Enter a value between in the range 2 and 32.

Save To

Save events. The values are:

  • None - Events are not saved
  • Disk - Events are saved to Disk

Filter Level

The filter severity level of events. Events that are at least as severe as the designated level will be logged. no events type suppresses all events of this type from being logged.

Rollover Start Time

The start time for event log rollover.

Rollover Interval

Enter the number of seconds. The event log rollover interval.

Rollover Type

The event log rollover type. Repetitive type will rollover logs continuously after rollover Interval.

Rollover Action

Event log rollover actions. The values are:

  • Start - Start event log rollover at specified starting time.
  • Stop - Stop event log rollover.

File Write Mode

Identifies event log NFS write mode. The values are:

  • DEFAULT - Log data is written to NFS as 1344 byte packet.
  • OPTIMIZE - Log data is written to NFS as 8000 byte packet.
    Optimize write mode results in IP fragmentation but yields better throughput.

Syslog State

Specifies whether the contents of this log are also written out to the syslog

Syslog Remote host

Specifies the remote host where the messages are written to the syslog. This must be a valid host name or a valid IP address.

Syslog Remote Protocol

Specifies the protocol to use to send messages to the remote syslog.

Syslog Remote Port

The IP Port Number. Specifies the port to use to send messages to the remote syslog.

Rename Open Files

Specifies whether to name the open accounting files with a ".OPEN" extension or not.

Make the required changes and click Save to save the changes.

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