Purpose of This Document
Who Should Read This Document
How This Document Is Organized
How to Use This Document
Opening the Document in a Web Browser
Printing from a Web Browser
Documentation Conventions
Related Documentation
Log Central Documentation
Contact Information
Documentation Support
Customer Support
Log Messages in System Management
Agent/Manager Architecture
Log Central and Enterprise Management Systems
Data Collection Agents
Log Central Components on the Managed Node
Log Monitor
Message Sender
Process Monitor
Central Collector
Message Receiver
Message Processor
Setting Up Log Central
Optional Setup Tasks
Configuring Log Central
Required Information for Host Configuration Utility
Running the Host Configuration Utility
Configuring Multiple Instances of Log Central
Managing Your Database
Creating a Database Schema
Dropping a Database Schema
Categorizing Messages by Resource
Creating Subsystem Entries in the Database
Deleting a Subsystem Entry
Managing Log Central User Entries
Add a User
Delete a User
Modify a Password
List Users
Log Monitor Configuration File Options
Specifying Option Values
Example of Using Log Monitor with a Configuration File
Multiple Separators with the -S Option
Using the -p and -x Options
Field Lengths
Specifying the Date Format (%f)
Filtering a System Log
Specifying Date Format
Converting Input Dates
Message Definitions
Getting Message Definitions into the Log Central Database
Create a Message Definition File
Example
Load the Message Definition File
Using Other Message Definition Commands
Exporting Message Definitions
Deleting Message Definitions
Default Configuration
Where to Put Intermediate Files
Specifying a Backup Central Collector
Host Name Usage
Specifying Nondefault Global Parameters
Assigning Filters to Agents
Using a MANAGED_NODE Entry
Defining Agent Filters
Defining Conditions
Defining Actions
Example
Filter Recommendations
Facilities for Managing Log Central
Management Information Base Support for Log Central
Process Monitor Agent
Central Collector SNMP Trap Generation
Data Collection Agent SNMP Trap Generation
Setting Up SNMP Management of Log Central
Integrating Events Generated by Agent Integrator Polling
Starting the Log Central Data Collection System
Starting Log Central on a Central Host
Starting Log Central on the Managed Nodes
Starting Log Monitor
Stopping the Log Central Data Collection System
Displaying Log Central System Information
Example
Invoking the Launch Panel
Using the Message Browser
Message Browser Main Window
How to Monitor Incoming Messages
How to Perform Historical Queries of the Message Database
How to Delete Messages
How to Acknowledge Messages
How to Remove Acknowledgment from Messages
How to Filter Messages
How to Change the Message Layout in the Main Window
How to Change Message Colors
How to View Message Details
How to Generate Reports
Using the Message Definition Editor
Message Definition Main Window
How to Display Message Definitions
How to Add a New Message Definition
How to Modify a Message Definition
How to Delete Message Definitions
How to Define Filtering Criteria for Retrieving Message Definitions
How to Change the Message Definition Layout
How to Change Message Definition Colors
How to Modify the Subsystem Description
How to Generate Reports
Using the Basic Trap Configuration Tool
Configuring Trap Generation by Severity
Configuring Trap Generation by Message Definition
Generating Traps Based on both Severity and Message Definition
Using the Storage Maintenance Tool
Storage Maintenance Main Window
How to Prepare the Records Processing Script
How to Schedule Deletion of Database Records
How to Manually Process Database Records
How to Schedule Processing of Database Records
How to Schedule Both Processing and Deletion of Database Records
How to Schedule Deletion of Intermediate Files
Message Format
Message Attributes at the Agent
Log ID
Logging Le1vel
Date and Time
Subsystem Name
Message ID
Host Name
Process ID
User ID
Function Name
Transaction ID
Body
Attributes in the Message Definition
Severity
Summary
Description
Recommendation
Trap Generation
Trap ID
Automatic Acknowledgment Flag
Execute on DB Upload
BEA_LC_IPCKEY
Using a New IPCKEY Value
BEA_LC_CONF_SERVICE
Using a Different UDP Communication Service
BEA_SM_BEAMGR_CONF
Setting a New Location for the BEA Manager Configuration File
Generating Test Messages
Examples
Reading the Current Intermediate Log File
Examples
Log Central Traps MIB
Process Monitor MIB
beaPmProcTable
Schema Tables
Log Message Definitions
Logging Levels
Message Severities
Subsystem Definitions
Trap Classes
Logged Message Data
User Data
Initialization File
BEA TUXEDO Message Mapping
Log Central Message Fields
Windows NT Event Log
Oracle Alert Log