Novell ZENWORKS LINUX MANAGEMENT 7.3 IR2, Administration Manual

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Figure 37-1
Summary Page and Hot List
To view the Hot List, click Home on the toolbar. This page shows the System Summary and the Hot
List. The System Summary page shows the various categories—servers, workstations, policies, and
bundles—and their respective status counts. In this example, there are four policies and none have
had a warning or critical event; one server that has not had any warning or critical events; and seven
bundles that haven’t had any warnings or critical events. In the workstation category, one
workstation has had at least one critical event. You can click the workstation name to view a
summary, which includes details of the problem events.
37.6 Backing Up the Log Files
You can take a backup of
/var/opt/novell/log/zenworks/tomcat/catalina.out
or any other
log file using the logrotate utility.
The logrotate utility is available with the operating system. The utility eases the administration of
systems that generate large numbers of log files. It allows automatic rotation, compression, and
removal of log files. Each log file might be handled daily, weekly, monthly, or when it grows too
large. For more information on the usage of the logrotate utility, see the logrotate man page.
ZENworks 7.3 Linux Management with IR2 provides a logrotate file,
/etc/logrotate.d/zlm-
server-logrotate
, on the server. The logrotate utility uses the file to rotate the existing and the
new log files created in
/var/opt/novell/log/zenworks
on the ZENworks Linux Management
server. These server log files are compressed with date extension, rotated, and backed up daily for 33
days before being discarded.