Systems Insight Manager 6.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for MS Windows

Implementation
Changes made to the log.properties file do not take effect until the log manager daemon or service is
restarted. Restart the HP Systems Insight Manager service.
CAUTION: The queue size should be changed only with extreme care. If the queue is set too high, the log
manager consumes too much system memory.
NOTE: When the Audit Log file reaches the maximum file size, the log is renamed with
MX_LOGROLLFILEEXT extension and a new file is started. If a previous version of the file has already been
renamed with the MX_LOG_ROLLFILEEXT extension, it will be an automatic roll-over of an audit log file.
A roll-over will not occur until a task running is completed. However, after one hour of exceeding the maximum
file size, if the task is not finished, then the audit log file will roll over to another file.
Procedure 8-1 Configuring the HP Systems Insight Manager Audit Log file location
1. Create a file named path.properties under C:\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight
Manager\config.
2. Add the following entry in the path.properties file: LOG=\\Auditlog\\Logs or
LOG=C:/Auditlog/Logs .
NOTE: C:\\Auditlog\\Log is listed here as an example. This path is user defined.
3. Restart the HP Systems Insight Manager service and 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.
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