NET/MASTER Management Services (MS) System Management Guide

10 Managing Activity Logs
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The NonStop NET/MASTER Management Services (MS) activity log consists of a pool
of one or more log files. A file in the pool receives and stores information about
activity on the network. Managing the NonStop NET/MASTER MS activity log
involves creating and maintaining log files and granting certain users the authority to
use the Activity Log Browse Facility. You can define multiple log files and specify
whether NonStop NET/MASTER MS should reuse existing log files. Activity log
management also includes maintaining an optional, system-level NCL procedure,
called LOGPROC, that can suppress or otherwise process messages destined for the
activity log.
Only users with access to the Operator Control Services or the System Support
Services can use the Activity Log Browse Facility. Access to the services is granted by
setting values in a user ID definition record, as described in Section 4, “Managing User
Access and Privileges.” For an introduction to the Activity Log Browse Facility and its
commands, refer to the NonStop NET/MASTER MS Operator’s Guide.
This section describes how to manage activity logs. Specifically, it provides
instructions for these tasks:
Creating and managing activity log files
Viewing log file status and attributes
Managing the LOGPROC procedure
Managing the activity log message queue
Refer to the NonStop NET/MASTER NCL Programmer’s Guide for an explanation of the
creation and use of a LOGPROC procedure.
Creating and
Managing Activity Log
Files
When it is started for the first time, NonStop NET/MASTER MS creates a log file.
Thereafter, system managers usually define activity log files. Normally, you specify a
set of one or more files as an activity log pool. A pool can consist of up to nine log
files.
Creating Activity Log Files NonStop NET/MASTER MS creates an activity log file automatically when it starts for
the first time. Until you explicitly define and permit use of additional log files,
NonStop NET/MASTER MS uses the single activity log file that it creates during its
first initialization. The location of the file is specified by the LOGFILE1 operand of the
PARAM command. By default, the file name is $isv-vol.ZNNMDATA.pLGFILE1,
where p is the process character. The process character is described in Section 2,
“Starting NonStop NET/MASTER MS.”
If you configure NonStop NET/MASTER MS to use multiple log files, it can create up
to nine files, including the log file created during the initial startup.
You can define additional log files by using the SYSPARMS LOGFILEn command to
define up to nine files as activity log files. Files are not created when they are specified
by the SYSPARMS command; new files are created as they are needed: for example,
when the current file becomes full.