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Monitoring CMS Logs
Chapter 23 Managing CMS Logs 787
Logging to Windows NT Event Log
In addition to logging messages to the log files maintained in your local file system,
Certificate Management System can also log audit messages and system errors to
the Windows NT Event log. The CMS window allows you to turn this feature on or
off and to specify the levels for logging. To configure the server to log messages to
the Event log, see “Configuring CMS Logs” on page 773.
Note that by default Certificate Management System is configured to write both
audit and system logs to the Windows NT Event log.
Using Event Viewer
Once you configure Certificate Management System to write audit and system logs
to the Event log of a Windows NT system, you can use the system’s tool called
Event Viewer to monitor events related to your server. For more information about
the Event Viewer, check your system documentation.
To monitor Certificate Management System by using Event Viewer:
1.
In the Administrative Tools program group, double-click the Event Viewer
icon.
2.
From the Log menu, select Application.
The Application log appears in Event Viewer. In this log, the source of any
messages from Netscape Certificate Management System is the server’s
instance ID (if you didn’t change the default value assigned to the
NTEventSourceName
parameter).
3.
From the View menu, choose Find to search for one of the Netscape labels in
the log; use Refresh to see updated log entries.
4.
Double-click a log entry to see additional information.
The mapping between the CMS log levels and the Windows NT event type is
shown in Table 23-4.
Table 23-4 Mapping between Windows NT log event type and CMS logs
Windows NT log event type CMS log level
Information Debugging (0)
Information Informational (1)
Warning Warning (2)
Error Failure (3)