System Administration
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4 Click OK. The system restarts to apply the changes.
System Log Configuration
The logger utility is activated at the system startup and continually records system events. The log files
generated by the utility contain the following information:
● Events occurred in system internal modules.
● Administrator activities.
● System login attempts.
● Operation errors.
Configure Log Settings
You can change the system logging strategy, configure warning limit, and enable remote logging.
To configure the log settings:
1 Go to Admin > Log Settings.
2 Configure the following settings:
Logging Level: Specify the system logging level, which decides to what level system events
should be written into the center/server.log file.
Info – logs all non-debug messages.
Debug – logs all messages.
Error – logs the fewest number of messages.
Warning – logs between error and Info messages.
Logger Warning Capacity: Specify the percentage of log file capacity used at which the system
displays a warning on the dashboard.
Log retention period (days): Defines the number of days to keep log archives on server.
SysLog Server IP Configuration: To configure the IP settings of the SysLog server.
Fall back the system early as possible if you find it necessary after system
upgrade, otherwise user data of the following operations will not be saved.
All log files generated the day before are automatically compressed into a ZIP file
named year-month-date.tar.gz at log maintenance window every day. The log
maintenance window is usually the first hour from 00:00:00 system time every day.
The log file storage is 30GB. You are prompted when the system reaches the
storage limit. The system will delete the old logs to free the disk space at log
maintenance window.