HP-UX AAA Server A.07.01 Administrator's Guide

12 Logging and Monitoring
This chapter covers the server's diagnostic functions that allow you to search and
display information related to the server's operation and usage.
Overview
You can view the log files that record the details of each AAA transaction or the session
logs that record information about each user's session. You can also access information
for active sessions and manually terminate a session if necessary.
These functions can be accessed by selecting the Maintenance menu items from the
Server Manager navigation tree. When you use any of these functions, you will retrieve
information from all servers selected in the Server Manager’s Server Status pane.
Server Log Files
The log file of the AAA server contains all the information concerning the functioning
of the server such as: start/stop of the server, all of the RADIUS requests, and some
internal events. The data is automatically stored each day in a different file. They are
available as long as the corresponding files are still on the disk.
• /var/opt/aaa/logs/logfile: the server log file
• /var/opt/aaa/logs/logfile_part<01-09>.yyyymmdd: compressed daily
log file
NOTE: If the logfile exceeds its size limit (as configured in the File Size Property
in the Server Properties link), a new logfile for that day will be created and
identified by the part<01-09> portion logfile file name string.
Using Server Manager to Retrieve Logfile Information
Selecting the Server Logfile link in Server Manager’s navigation tree allows you to
retrieve information from log files.
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