NetBackup™ Logging Reference Guide
- Using logs
- About logging
- Logging levels
- Log retention and log size
- Changing the logging levels
- About unified logging
- Gathering unified logs for NetBackup
- Types of unified logging messages
- File name format for unified logging
- Originator IDs for the entities that use unified logging
- About changing the location of unified log files
- About rolling over unified log files
- About recycling unified log files
- About using the vxlogview command to view unified logs
- Examples of using vxlogview to view unified logs
- Examples of using vxlogmgr to manage unified logs
- Examples of using vxlogcfg to configure unified logs
- About legacy logging
- UNIX client processes that use legacy logging
- PC client processes that use legacy logging
- File name format for legacy logging
- Directory names for legacy debug logs for servers
- Directory names for legacy debug logs for media and device management
- How to control the amount of information written to legacy logging files
- Limit the size and retention of legacy logs
- Accessibility of the legacy logs
- Setting retention limits for logs on clients
- UNIX logging with syslogd
- Logging options with the Windows Event Viewer
- Backup process and logging
- Media and device processes and logging
- Restore process and logging
- Advanced backup and restore features
- Storage logging
- NetBackup Deduplication logging
- OpenStorage Technology (OST) logging
- Storage lifecycle policy (SLP) and Auto Image Replication (A.I.R.) logging
- NetBackup secure communication logging
- About NetBackup secure communication logging
- Tomcat logging
- NetBackup web services logging
- Command-line logging
- NetBackup cURL logging
- Java logging
- Embeddable Authentication Client (EAT) logging
- Authentication Services (AT) logging
- vssat logging
- NetBackup proxy helper logging
- NetBackup proxy tunnel logging
- PBX logging
- Sending secure communication logs to Veritas Technical Support
- Snapshot technologies
- Locating logs
- Overview of NetBackup log locations and processes
- acsssi logging
- bpbackup logging
- bpbkar logging
- bpbrm logging
- bpcd logging
- bpcompatd logging
- bpdbm logging
- bpjobd logging
- bprd logging
- bprestore logging
- bptestnetconn logging
- bptm logging
- daemon logging
- ltid logging
- nbemm logging
- nbjm logging
- nbpem logging
- nbproxy logging
- nbrb logging
- NetBackup Vault logging
- NetBackup web services logging
- NetBackup web server certificate logging
- PBX logging
- reqlib logging
- Robots logging
- tar logging
- txxd and txxcd logging
- vnetd logging
- NetBackup Administration Console logging
- NetBackup Administration Console logging process flow
- Enabling detailed debug logging for the NetBackup Administration Console
- Setting up a secure channel between the NetBackup Administration Console and bpjava-*
- Setting up a secure channel between the NetBackup Administration Console and either nbsl or nbvault
- NetBackup Administration Console logging configuration on NetBackup servers and clients
- Logging Java operations for the NetBackup Remote Administration Console
- Configuring and gathering logs when troubleshooting NetBackup Administration Console issues
- Undo logging
- Using the Logging Assistant
About legacy logging
In NetBackup legacy debug logging, a process creates log files of debug activity in its own logging directory. By default, NetBackup creates only a subset of logging directories, in the following locations:
Windows | install_path\NetBackup\logs install_path\Volmgr\debug |
UNIX | /usr/openv/netbackup/logs /usr/openv/volmgr/debug |
To use legacy logging, a log file directory must exist for a process. If the directory is not created by default, you can use the Logging Assistant or the mklogdir batch files to create the directories. Or, you can manually create the directories. When logging is enabled for a process, a log file is created when the process begins. Each log file grows to a certain size before the NetBackup process closes it and creates a new log file.
Note:
It is recommended to always use the mklogdir utility present in Windows and Linux to create the legacy log directories for each platform, in order to have appropriate permissions on them.
You can use the following batch files to create all of the log directories:
Windows: install_path\NetBackup\Logs\mklogdir.bat
UNIX: /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/mklogdir
Follow these recommendations when you create and use legacy log folders:
Do not use symbolic links or hard links inside legacy log folders.
If any process runs for a non-root or non-admin user and there is no logging that occurs in the legacy log folders, use the mklogdir command to create a folder for the required user.
To run a command line for a non-root or non-admin user (troubleshooting when the NetBackup services are not running), create user folders for the specific command line. Create the folders either with the mklogdir command or manually with the non-root or non-admin user privileges.
See the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide for a complete description about the mklogdir command.
See Directory names for legacy debug logs for servers .
See Directory names for legacy debug logs for media and device management.