Help for Appliance System Manager Logs


Description of the information displayed

The Appliance System Manager (ASM) administrative interface lets you display several system logs.

The Logs Main Page provides the current status of the system, including:


Description of the logs available

You display logged information by selecting one of the logs listed under the Logs heading in the navigation frame.

The following system logs (listed under the System sub-heading) can be displayed by ASM:

Log Description
Cron Job The system cron log. The system creates an entry in this log whenever a scheduled job (process) is started by the system cron process.
Boot The system dmesg log. This log contains system initialization information and messages that were created before the system log (syslogd) was active.
System Messages The system messages log. Many of the system components store information (including status and error information) in this log.
System Security The system secure log. This log contains system and network access security messages.
File Transfer The system xferlog log. The system stores an entry in this log whenever a file is copied to or from the system using FTP.


ASM maintains several logs in addition to the system logs. The following ASM logs (listed under the ASM sub-heading) can be displayed:

Log Description
Audit The ASM audit log. ASM creates an entry in this log whenever an administrative action is performed using the ASM administrative interface.
Access The access log for the ASM web server. The web server creates an entry in this log every time it receives and processes a HTTP request from a web browser using the ASM administrative interface.
Error The error log for the ASM web server. This log contains any errors encountered by the web server while processing requests for the ASM administrative interface.