HP HP-UX SNAplus2, Administration Manual

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Chapter 4 139
Basic Configuration Tasks
Configuring Logging
Configuring Logging
SNAplus2 writes log messages describing abnormal events (and,
optionally, normal events) to log files. When you try to diagnose a
problem, the first place to look is in the log files, because the log
messages provide information about the cause of the problem and the
action you should take.
SNAplus2 logs messages for the following categories of event:
Problem
An abnormal event that degrades the system in a way
perceptible to a user (such as abnormal termination of
a session).
Exception
An abnormal event that degrades the system but that
is not immediately perceptible to a user (such as a
resource shortage), or an event that does not degrade
the system but may indicate the cause of later
exceptions or problems (such as receiving an
unexpected message from the remote system).
Audit
A normal event (such as starting a session).
To distinguish between logs relating to normal and error conditions, the
different message categories are logged to different files. Problem and
exception messages are logged to the error log file; audit messages are
logged to the audit log file.
SNAplus2 provides a backup mechanism to prevent log files from
becoming too large and consuming disk resources. When a log file
reaches the maximum permitted size, SNAplus2 copies its current
contents to a backup file and then clears the log file.
By default, SNAplus2 uses the following log files:
Error log file
/var/opt/sna/sna.err
/var/opt/sna/bak.err
(backup)
Audit log file
/var/opt/sna/sna.aud
/var/opt/sna/bak.aud
(backup)