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A P P E N D I X AIntel® NetStructure™ 7190 Multi-Site Traffic Director User Guide
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System Log
The system log contains diagnostic messages from various software
modules of the 7190. 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 7190 which owns the
log.
The Process 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
[system|dns|ntp|stats|all]
Specify system to display the log messages from the BACKEND
module only. Specify dns to display messages from the DNSD, NCA,
WDOG and DBPRD modules. Specify stats to display messages
from the DNS_STATS module. Specify all to display all messages in
the log.
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.