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Network Registrar Logging

Logging Format
Log Files

Network Registrar Debugging

Logging and Debugging

This appendix describes the types of logs that Network Registrar keeps and explains how to view the debug logging options.

Network Registrar Logging

When you start Network Registrar, it automatically starts logging system activity. Network Registrar maintains all the logs in the \registrar\logs (Windows NT) or /var/nwreg2/logs (UNIX) directory. If you would like to view the contents of these logs while the Network Registrar servers are running, make a copy of the files and move them to another directory.

Logging Format

The format for the log entries are the following categories:

• Activit---Messages about the activity of your servers.

• Info---Standard operations of the servers, such as starting up and shutting down.

• Warning---Events that prevented a particular user from authentication, such as invalid packets, user miscommunication, or an error in a script while processing a request.

• Error---Events that prevented the server from operating properly, such as out of memory or unable to acquire resources (sockets, logs, backing store or configuration databases).

Log Files

Table E-1 shows all the Network Registrar log files.

Table E-1: Log Files

Component	File Name	Description
Server Agent	agent_server_log	Contains information about when the servers have been started and stopped.
WIN32 GUI	aicwin32gui_log	Contains GUI messages and only logs activity on the server PC not from the remote GUI.
Database Manager	config_mcd_log	Contains the management system configuration and start, stop and GUI login.
DHCP server	name_dhcp_1_log	Contains server state, new leases, and lease renewal.
DNS server	name_dns_1_log	Contains server state, DDNS updates, and zone transfers.

Network Registrar Debugging

You can set the debug settings for the Network Registrar DNS and the DHCP servers by clicking the Debug settings button on the Advanced tab of the DNS Server Properties dialog box (Figure 2-8) and the DHCP Server Properties dialog box (Figure 3-7.)

You can set the debug level from 0 to 5 for the Network Registrar DNS server and from 0 to 10 for the Network Registrar DHCP servers, with the higher levels giving you more extensive logging.

You can choose from two logging options:

• Console---The system screen

• Mlog---Add the debug messages to the existing logs

Posted: Thu Jul 13 11:27:34 PDT 2000
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