Logging Configuration: Keep last xx hours in logfile

JuergenF · Post by **JuergenF** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 10:14 am

I'd like to have a log file that contains all entries of the last 72 Hours. Automatically trimmed. Is that possible ?

Alternativ a "maximum log size" with "rollover-option" would help.

At the moment I use "maximum log size 20 MB" and "clear log and start over".
Problem: After start over the log is empty. And that just happens 5 minutes before I need the infos.

Marcus · Post by **Marcus** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 1:12 pm

You can set the log to change every day (or month) and have no limit. All data of one day will be stored in a single log file.

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 5:07 pm

>I'd like to have a log file that contains all entries of the last 72 Hours. Automatically trimmed. Is that possible ?

Its very bad for performance. In this case HostMonitor will need to rewrite whole log file every time new record added (after 72 hours).

>Alternativ a "maximum log size" with "rollover-option" would help.

Possible solution: maintain log till "maximum log size" and then cut log to half of its size (keep most recent records of course).
I have added this task into to do list.

Regards
Alex

JuergenF · Post by **JuergenF** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 11:53 pm

Alex wrote:
Possible solution: maintain log till "maximum log size" and then cut log to half of its size (keep most recent records of course).
I have added this task into to do list.

Thank you. That will be a good solution for me.

Other possibility:
"Automatically change the name every day"
and a new option: Keep x days (to automatically trim the number of files)

Juergen

HiQDevil · Post by **HiQDevil** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 2:57 am

The solution to create a new every day is fine, but is it possible to have an auto delete funktion.
For example: delete the log files after 30 days.
It looks like the only chance to have this funktion is to use a batch file, or is there a way with HM?

Regards

Claas

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 4:56 am

>It looks like the only chance to have this funktion is to use a batch file, or is there a way with HM?

No, HostMonitor cannot do that. And I am not sure it will be implemented because HostMonitor knows about current log file only. During a month you may change log settings several times and use different names for log files and so on...

Regards
Alex