Messages log

About the Messages log

The appliance provides a Messages log file to help you monitor events, such as reboots, device failures, and errors. Critical system events are also reported to the console. Use this log when you are looking for appliance configuration or runtime errors.

Messages log file management

The Messages log is always enabled and cannot be disabled. The Messages log normally uses only a small amount of memory and generating it should not affect normal appliance operations. The Messages log is not configurable. The appliance always rotates the Messages log. A new Messages log is started every Sunday at midnight. At this time, the recently replaced messages file is copied to messages.0, the messages.0 file is copied to messages.1, and so on. The oldest Messages log is deleted.

Location of log file management options

Select Data tab > Log Files > logfilename in the Appliance Manager to access the log maintenance pages. From these pages, you can

View an entire log file or the last lines of a log file
Copy log files to your computer
Delete one or more log files
Send log files to a remote FTP or HTTP Web server