HP Systems Insight Manager 6.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX

NOTE: /var/opt/mx/logs is listed here as an example. This path is user-defined.
3. Restart the HP Systems Insight Manager daemons (mxstop and mxstart). After restarting the services,
a new log file named mx.log resides in the directory specified in path.properties file.
Configuring task results
HP Systems Insight Manager enables you to set how long entries remain on the Task Results Page after
a task completes.
Short and long task lifetimes Some task results are kept for a short time, while other task results are kept
for a longer time. Tasks fall into one or the other category based on the type of tool associated with them.
Tasks for the following tools have a short lifetime:
• Web-launch tools
• Tools that run from the mxexec command line using the -O or -o options to save the command output
• Tools that run X-Window commands
• Tools that specify in their tool definition the “job-log” flag as disabled, including:
Hardware Status Polling•
• Data Collection
• Identify Systems
• Software Status Polling
• Delete Events
• System Protocol Settings
• Automatic Discovery
Tools in this category have no task output, have task output that is saved outside of HP Systems Insight
Manager, or have task results that are unlikely to be of long-term interest. Tasks for all other tools are
considered long-term.
Frequently scheduled tasks Task results can also be removed from the Task Results Page if a certain
number of task results for a scheduled task accumulate. This setting defaults to 10 instances of a single task.
If more than 10 accumulate on the results page, then the oldest task result for this scheduled task is removed.
Last result tasks A task result is kept indefinitely if it is the last result for a scheduled task. For example, if
a scheduled task is disabled, its final task result is kept indefinitely or until the task is enabled and more task
results accumulate.
To configure task results using the HP Systems Insight Manager interface, select Options→Task Results
Settings. For more information, see the HP Systems Insight Manager help system.
To configure the short and long task lifetimes manually, edit the globalsettings.props file.
• The long lifetime defaults to 30 days. To change that time, edit:
MX_JOB_MAX_COMPLETED_JOB_AGE=30
• Task results for frequently scheduled tasks start to drop off after 10 instances. To change this value,
edit:
MX_JOB_MAX_COMPLETED_JOBS_PER_TASK=10
NOTE: The limit of 10 task results applies to scheduled tasks with the "job-log" flag enabled in the
tool definition. Scheduled tasks for the tools with the "job-log" flag disabled have a limit of 1. This value
is not configurable.
• By default, the last task results for a scheduled task is kept indefinitely.
34 Configuration options