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About the Bravura Security Fabric Log

The Logging Service (idmlogsvc) maintains a log of Bravura Security Fabric program execution. This includes web modules, services, exit programs, plugins, connectors, and command-line programs. By default the log is stored in a text file, idmsuite.log , within the Logs directory. This directory is rotated nightly; rotated logs are named in the following way:

  1. Current: <instance>

  2. Most recent for specific date, except the current log: <instance> . <yyyy> - <mm> - <dd>

  3. Log rotated more than once for a specific date: <instance> . <yyyy> - <mm> - <dd> - <hhmmss> . <SerialNo> .

For example, if the instance is ExampleCo , logs are named:

ExampleCo 
ExampleCo.2016-02-28
ExampleCo.2016-02-28-134020.0
ExampleCo.2016-02-28-114020.0
ExampleCo.2016-02-27   
ExampleCo.2016-02-26   
ExampleCo.2016-02-25

In the above example, the log was rotated 3 times in 2016-02-28 and the directories are in a most recent sequence order.

Log entries are, in general, composed of multiple lines or messages written in the format:

<date> <time> - [<lsid>] <program> [<process ID>,<thread ID>] <level>: [<range>] <message text> 

where:

lsid

is the logging session ID. Certain programs, such as web modules, include a session ID in their log entries. All lines with the same logging session ID belong to the same event.

level

is the level or severity of the message. This can be one of: Error, Warning, Notice, Info, Debug, or Verbose.

range

is the range of characters from the log message included in the log entry. This is shown only when long log messages are spread between multiple log entries. Since each log entry includes 500 characters of the log message, the range for the first entry is [0 .. 499] .

See also:

  • Scheduling Maintenance to learn how to control the rotatelog job that is responsible for rotating the log file directory.

  • Logging Service to learn how to change log service parameters for logging, including the log file name and location, and the logging level. This chapter also shows you how to rotate the log using the idmlogsvc -rotatelog <N> command.

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