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Chapter 8
Log Plug-in Modules
Netscape Certificate Management System (CMS) can record events related to its
activities, such as administration, communications using any of the protocols the
server supports, and various other processes employed by all the subsystems that
the server manages. To monitor these events, you need to capture them in to a
repository. For this purpose, Certificate Management System provides plug-in
modules. This chapter explains the log modules—it lists and briefly describes the
modules and then explains each one in detail.
The chapter has the following sections:
• Overview of Log Modules (page 297)
• file Plug-in Module (page 299)
• NTEventLog Plug-in Module (page 304)
Overview of Log Modules
You can configure a CMS instance to log messages related to specific activities
when events relevant to those activities occur. Log messages are
event-driven—that is, whenever an event occurs, Certificate Management System
generates the message and writes it to the configured repository. Event-driven
logging involves a listener class in the CMS instance that registers an interest in an
appropriate event such as a failed enrollment request.
Log plug-in modules discussed in this chapter are listeners, which are
implemented as Java classes and are registered in the CMS policy framework. The
Log Event Listener Plugin Registration tab of the CMS window (Figure 8-1) lists all
the modules that are registered with a CMS instance.