Viewing Logs
About the Log Viewers
The log viewer allows you to search using regular expressions for log entries. Separating search queries with a space will search for either of the search terms in a log entry. Adding a ! operator to the first character of a search term indicates the term must not be found in a log entry. You can also use the Filter option to filter the messages.
More about the Logger Service
The WebAdmin Logs tab displays a record of events generated by the WebAdmin. A description of each Action (Event) is displayed along with additional details including the Date/Time of the event, the User Name, and the IP address of the person who initiated the event. WebAdmin Log Types are: Policy, WebAdmin, Auth, Default, Database, and Security. The Policy Group also displays if applicable. You can sort the columns by clicking on the heading.
The 'Request Logs' window catches the traffic on each policy server, by polling the request logs every second. The viewer displays up to 50 logs per server with the display limit set by the 'Logs Per Page' option in WebAdmin Settings. The 'Settings' icon on the toolbar lets you show/hide column heading. You can click in the log viewer to pause the flow of the logs or you can click the Play/Pause button in the Header Table.
The Live tab displays a record of the events generated by the Policy Service. This includes information on loading and unloading of modules, the database, the Policy Server Settings (i.e. nsd.conf), etc.
This is a record of the events generated by the NSProxy including information on loading configuration, proxy name and address. This information can be used to help troubleshoot unexpected NSProxy behaviour.
The log viewer allows you to search using regular expressions for log entries. Separating search queries with a space will search for either of the search terms in a log entry. Adding a ! operator to the first character of a search term indicates the term must not be found in a log entry. You can also use the Filter option to filter the messages.
The Reporter Logs Messages Tab is a record of events generated by the reporting daemon (a.k.a. nsreporter), including processing of Demand, Scheduled and Continuous Reports.
This is a record of the URL Alerts generated via the deny pages or the URL Tools > URL Alerts menu item. Please refer to the URL Tools Help Page for more information on URL Alerts.
This is a record of the events generated by the Up2Date service process, otherwise known as the Up2Date Daemon. This includes information on loading and unloading of modules, and settings (i.e. nsup2d.conf), etc.
This is a record of events generated during synchronization with your LDAP server. This includes information on groups, users, organizational units, and domain controllers. These messages can also be found by clicking a specific Host in Administration > Services.