Specifications

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Transaction Logs
• Flash Media Streaming logs are logged to a working log on the local disk in
/local1/logs/fms_access/working.log and /local1/logs/fms_authorization/working.log
Note For Movie Streamer, client requests that join the multicast group do not appear in the transaction log
because multicast clients do not contact the server.
Archive Working Log
You can specify the interval at which the working log should be cleared by moving the data to an archive
log. The archive log files are located on the local disk in the /local1/logs/ directory.
Archive files can be configured by time interval and file size. If one of the criteria is met, a log rotation
occurs. You can specify the maximum number of old logs kept on disk.
Because multiple archive files are saved, the filename includes the timestamp when the file was archived.
Because the files can be exported to an FTP/SFTP server, the filename also contains the IP address of
the SE.
The archive filenames use this format: modulename_IPADDRESS_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.
For example, fms_access_10.74.61.130_20070913_080051 is the filename for the archive of the
fms_access log.
Note The IP address used in the archived filename is not necessarily the primary interface of the SE, the
transaction log function decides on which IP address to use in creating the archive name.
Exporting Log Files
To facilitate the post-processing of cache log files, you can export transaction logs to an external host.
This feature allows log files to be automatically exported by FTP to an external host at configurable
intervals. The username and password used for FTP are configurable, as is the directory to which the log
files are uploaded.
The log files automatically have a filename that uses the <type>_<ipaddr>_yyyymmdd_hhmmss format,
where:
• <type> represents the type of log file, with selog for cache logs such as HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP,
and mms_export for Windows Media Technologies (WMT) logs.
• <ipaddr> represents the SE IP address.
• yyyymmdd_hhmmss represents the date and time when the log was archived for export.
Exporting Transaction Logs to External FTP Servers
To export transaction logs to an FTP server, you must first enable exporting of transaction logs and then
configure the FTP or secure FTP (SFTP) server parameters. This feature can support up to four FTP
servers. The following information is required for each target FTP server:
• Server IP address or the hostname
The SE translates the hostname with a DNS lookup and then stores the IP address in the
configuration.
• FTP user login and user password