User Guide

Monitoring the Web Server 113
Getting Results with Novell Web Services
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August 29, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
10 Monitoring the Web Server
You can monitor your Web server’s activity using one of several methods. You
can view the server’s status in real time—what is happening while you view
it, compared to past performance—by using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol
(HTTP) or the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). You can also
monitor your server by recording and viewing log files.
Working with Log Files
Server log files record your server’s activity. You can use these logs to monitor
your server and to help you when troubleshooting. Both the error log file and
the access log file are located in /NOVONYX/SUITESPOT/HTTPS-
SERVERNAME/LOGS. The error log file lists all the errors the server has
encountered, and the access log file records information about requests to the
server and the responses from the server. You can use the Server Status form
to specify what to include in the access log file. Use the log analyzer to
generate server statistics. You can back up server error and access log files by
archiving them.
Viewing an Access Log File
You can view the server’s active and archived access log files from the Server
Status form.
1 From the Web Manager home page, click Enterprise Web Server
servername > Server Status > View Access Log.
2 Select the access log file you want to see from the View This Log File
drop-down list.
Active log files for resources and archived log files appear in the list.
3 To limit how much of the access log you see, enter the number of lines
you want to see in the Number of Entries field.
The order of the log entries on the screen is the order in which they were
recorded in the log.
4 If want to filter the access log entries for a particular word, enter the word
in the Only Show Entries With field.