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ZMC provides Event logs so you you can all the events and take corrective action if necessary. All events related to backup (but not restore events) are presented in a tabular form. The events can be sorted on any column by clicking the column header name.
Event Log Page
The columns of the page are:
- Timestamp
- Time stamp of the event, displayed in 24-hour (military) format.
- Source
- The source of the event or log is either the local ZMC console or the Zmanda network.
- Severity
- failure, warning, or info. All failure events need immediate attention.
- Backup Set
- Displays the backup set name if the event is not a Zmanda Network Alert.
- Description
- Event description. Some event descriptions have links. Clicking the links will provide information from knowledgebase in the Zmanda Network or Amanda wiki about how to resolve the problem if it is an error.
Alerts can also come from Zmanda Network, providing security and product updates. The ZMC can generate many events during a backup process and configuration process.
All events are retained until purged using the logrotate utility (described below). This lets backup administrator identify error trends across backup runs.
- Sorting Order of Columns
- By clicking on the header of any column, the view of the page can be altered so that it is sorted as per that column.
- A second click on the header resorts the page as per the reverse order of that column.
Log Rotate Utility
ZMC works with a log rotate utility that allows sysadmins to effectively prune active logs.
Sysadmins should rotate the logs using crontab.
For example: 0 1 * * 1,5 logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/zmc_logrotate (For 1 AM on Monday and Friday of each week)
The pruned logs are not saved by the utility; they are simply pruned by it. You must manually copy the logs before pruning if you wish to retain them.