HP-UX AAA Server A.08.02 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.
Figure 34 Server Manager’s Logfile Screen
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