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Logs
264 Netscape Certificate Management System Administrator’s Guide • February 2003
About Logs
CMS creates log files that record events related to its activities, such as
administration, communications using any of the protocols the server supports,
and various other processes employed by the subsystems the server manages.
While CMS is running, it keeps a log of information and error messages on all the
components it manages.
Log plug-in modules are listeners, which are implemented as Java classes and are
registered in the CMS policy framework.
Each instance of Netscape Certificate Management System (CMS) maintains its
own log files.
All the log files and rotated log files, except for audit logs (signed or not), are
located in the following directory:
<server_root>/cert-<instance_id>/logs
Audit logs, signed or not, are located in the following directory:
<server_root>/cert-<instance_id>/logs/signedAudit
You can change the default location for logs by modifying it in the configuration.
Error and Access Logs
The error and access logs are created by Netscape Enterprise Server, which is
installed with CMS providing HTTP services. The error log contains the HTTP
error messages the server has encountered. The access log lists access activity
through the HTTP interface. These logs are not available or configurable from
within CMS; they are only configurable from within Enterprise Server. See the
Netscape Enterprise Server documentation for information about configuring these
logs.
Self-Tests Log
The self-tests log records information obtained during the self-tests run when the
server starts up, or when the self-tests are manually run (on demand). The tests can
be viewed by opening this log. This log is not configurable through the CMS
Console, you must configure it by changing settings in the
CMS.cfg
file. The
information about logs in this section does not pertain to this log. See “Self Tests,”
on page 282 for more information about self-tests.