Quick log

KS-Soft Europe · Joined: 16 May 2006 Posts: 2832

QuickLogSize parameter does not affect single test quick log size. It allows you to specify size of the Quick Log for folders only. So, if you set QuickLogSize=400, it means HostMonitor shows up to 400 entries for the certain folder. If you see only 50 entries for the certain folder, it means, that no tests in that have changed their status since you changed QuickLogSize.

Regards,
Max

thomasschmeidl · Joined: 15 Apr 2006 Posts: 166 Location: Germany, Bavaria

Hi Max and thanks for your prompt reply,

I analyzed the setting a bit more - these are my results:

Quicklog indeed can display up to 400 entries for a certain folder but obviously only 10 entries are displayed for each individual test (-> in a folder with 5 tests you can see max. 50 quick log entries).

This can be very misleading as there is an individual cut off time for every test in the folder quick log.

IMHO this behaviour should be changed.
Proposal: Always show the last n status changes (of the selected test or the selected folder including all subfolders)

Is this possible?

Regards

Thomas

KS-Soft · Joined: 03 Apr 2002 Posts: 12806 Location: USA

I cannot agree with you. Quick log should be quick. Thats why HostMonitor stores just several records for each test item in memory (RAM) . If you need 400 records for each test, you may use Log Analyzer or log viewers. Log Analyzer is slow because it processes a lot of records. HostMonitor has different purpose, it should use system resources for efficient monitoring, not for log analyzing.

Regards
Alex

thomasschmeidl · Joined: 15 Apr 2006 Posts: 166 Location: Germany, Bavaria

I understand and I agree that quick log wouldn't be quick any more storing 400 records per test.

But I hope you can understand that the "QuickLogSize" does solve our problem not very thoroughly. Using "normal and "warning" status QL records only three events (OK - Normal - Warning - Bad) per test.

QL is much faster than LA (log analyzer) in detection of dependecies of faults (what happened first?)

Would it be possible to provide an (undocumented) variable "QuickLogRecordsPerTest" (default=10), so that every user can decide whether to have a fast and small QL or a medium-fast and bigger one (allocating more memory)?

This would be VERY helpful

Thanks in advance

Thomas