Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 Administrator's Guide

Monitoring Server and Database
Activity
This chapter describes monitoring database and Red Hat Directory Server logs. For information
on using SNMP to monitor the Directory Server, see Chapter 14, Monitoring Directory Server
Using SNMP.
1. Viewing and Configuring Log Files
Directory Server provides three types of logs to help better manage the directory and tune
performance. There are three types of logs:
• Access
• Errors
• Audit
For all types of logs, the log creation and log deletion policies have to be configured. The log
creation policy sets when a new log file is started, and the log deletion policy sets when an old
log file is deleted. The following sections describe how to define the log file creation and
deletion policy and how to view and configure each type of log.
NOTE
When the server is not running, the log files cannot be viewed in the Directory
Server Console, but they can be viewed in the Admin Express. Open the
Administration Server URL in a browser:
http://hostname:admin_server_port
Then log in with the admin login ID and password, and click the link for
Administration Express.
1.1. Defining a Log File Rotation Policy
For the directory to archive the current log periodically and start a new one, define a log file
rotation policy in the Directory Server Console. The log file rotation policy has the following
configuration parameters:
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