HP-UX Directory Server 8.1 configuration, command, and file reference

Table 5-4 Error log levels (continued)
DescriptionConsole nameSetting
Logs the current connection status, including the connection
methods used for a SASL bind.
Connection management
8
Print out the numbers of packets sent and received by the
server.
Packets sent/received
16
Logs all the functions called by a search operation.Search filter processing
32
Prints any .conf configuration files used with the server,
line by line, when the server is started. By default, only
slapd-collations.conf is available and processed.
Config file processing
64
Access control list processing
128
Logs schema parsing debugging information.Log entry parsing.
2048
Housekeeping thread debugging.Housekeeping
4096
Logs detailed information about every replication-related
operation, including updates and errors, which is important
for debugging replication problems.
Replication
8192
Default level of logging used for critical errors and other
messages that are always written to the error log, such as
server startup messages. Messages at this level are always
included in the error log, regardless of the log level setting.
Default
16384
Database entry cache debugging.Entry cache
32768
Writes an entry to the log file when a server plug-in calls
slapi-log-error
, so this is used for server plug-in debugging.
Plug-ins
65536
Microsecond resolution for timestamps instead of the default
seconds. This cannot be enabled in the Directory Server
Console.
131072
Summarizes information about access to the server, much
less verbose than level 128. This value is recommended for
use when a summary of access control processing is needed.
Use 128 for very detailed processing messages.
Access control summary
262144
5.2.2 Error log content
The error log format is simpler than the access log entries. It is also more flexible because the
kind of information returned depends on the service or operation which is writing the log entry.
Generally, error log entries contain the following elements:
• A timestamp, such as [05/Aug/2009:02:27:22 -0500]. The ending four digits, -0500,
indicate the time difference in relation to GMT.
• The plug-in being called, for internal operations.
• Functions called by the plug-in, for internal operations.
• Messages returned by the plug-in or operation, which may include LDAP error codes,
connection information, or entry information.
Frequently, the messages for an operation appear on multiple lines of the log, but these are not
identified with a connection number or operation number.
Example 5-3 “Error log excerpt” shows excerpts from an error log at the default logging level,
which includes some task information, critical errors, and server startup messages.
182 Log file reference