May be Doug or David can explain why this option (Max-Log-History) is not documented or added as an available parameter on the Server Information Log tab, I do know it works :) as provided by BMC engineering to me this last week.
In my opinion the original overwrite functionality of log was not well thought out, especially for those sql and filter logs - Max-Log-History works much better. Regards, Andrew C. Goodall Software Engineer Development Services [email protected] jcpenney 6501 Legacy Drive Plano, TX 75024 jcp.com -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Misi Mladoniczky Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 12:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ARS generational logging Hi, I have gone through the 7.6.04 config guide, where ar.cfg/conf is explained. There are no such thing as a Max-Log-History option! The Max-Log-File-Size is there though, and this option has been around for a very long time. I checked the doc for version 4.5, and it is in there. Just specify the number of bytes you want in your log, and when the system fills that up, it will start overwriting the file from the beginning again. And no, this does not apply to arerror.log. All log files can be rotated though. But there is no built in functionality for this. Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se (ARSList MVP 2011) Products from RRR Scandinavia (Best R.O.I. Award at WWRUG10/11): * RRR|License - Not enough Remedy licenses? Save money by optimizing. * RRR|Log - Performance issues or elusive bugs? Analyse your Remedy logs. Find these products, and many free tools and utilities, at http://rrr.se. > I don't think so - but that would have been nice. > > I say that because the max log file parameter doesn't seem to apply to > arerror.log so I don't expect this to either. L > > > > Regards, > > > > Andrew C. Goodall > > Software Engineer > > Development Services > > [email protected] > > jcpenney > > 6501 Legacy Drive > > Plano, TX 75024 > > jcp.com > > > > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Axton > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 5:48 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ARS generational logging > > > > ** > > Any chance that applies to the arerror log too? > > On Aug 17, 2012 5:43 PM, "Susan Palmer" <[email protected]> wrote: > > ** > > That's more clear to me now. We're still at 7.5 so I guess we'll look at > the next version that comes out for an upgrade hopefully next year. > > > > Thanks for the info Andrew and Ravi ! > > > > Susan > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Goodall, Andrew C <[email protected]> wrote: > > ** > > It is going to help so much in working with support. Can't tell you how > many times a log has been unworkable or useless because it has rolled over > itself due to the fixed size "readable" limit, even 0 limit will stop at > 2gb - not that is readable/manageable anyway > > Max-Log-History: 3 > > Sql.log <- current log > > Sql.001.log ß oldest generation > > Sql.002.log > > Sql.003.log ß latest generation /rolled log > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Andrew C. Goodall > > Software Engineer > > Development Services > > [email protected] > > jcpenney > > 6501 Legacy Drive > > Plano, TX 75024 > > jcp.com > > > > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Susan Palmer > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 5:21 PM > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: ARS generational logging > > > > ** > > Hi Andrew, > > > > Not sure what 'generational' logging is. Are you referring to a rolling > log, where you could set a max and then oldest entries drop off when the > max size is reached to make room for new entries? That would be great to > have some logs continually running for those unexpected times when you'd > like to look at something that happened but the logs weren't on. > > > > Regards, > > Susan > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Goodall, Andrew C <[email protected]> > wrote: > > ** > > I've been wanting generational logging in ARS for a long time. > > I just learned that is now available with a new ar.cg parameter > Max-Log-History > > > > I don't know when this was implemented, maybe it was with 7.6.x but I wish > BMC would have advertised this to admins or made this accessible on the > Server Information Tab. > > e.g. Max-Log-History: 20 > > > > Regards, > > > > Andrew C. 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