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  3. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  5. Section I. About NetBackup
  7. Introducing the NetBackup interfaces
  9. Using the NetBackup Administration Console
  11. Configuring log files for the NetBackup Administration Console
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Configuring log files for the NetBackup Administration Console

You can configure the logging options for the NetBackup Administration Console.

Caution

Most of the logging options degrade NetBackup Administration Console performance and may write large amounts of data to the log files, possibly filling up the file system. Consider the following items that may help prevent filling up the file system on which NetBackup is installed:

  • Use an environment variable named JNB_LOG as follows:

    • Set the variable to a log file pathname on a file system that has enough space for the log files.

      Delete the environment variable when you stop logging NetBackup Administration Console information.

    • On UNIX, set the variable to /dev/tty. The /dev/tty setting writes the log information to the console window.

  • On UNIX: Use the -l option to the jnbSA or jbpSA command to specify one of the following settings:

    • To a log file pathname on a file system that has enough space for the log file.

    • To /dev/tty. The /dev/tty setting writes the log information to the console window.

The log file directories and names are described in a different topic.

See NetBackup Administration Console log files.

To configure logging for the NetBackup Administration Console

  1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, click View > Options to open the Options dialog box.
  2. Click the Logging tab.
  3. Select the information that you want to write to the log file:

    Enable command logs

    Enable this option to capture the output from the commands that the NetBackup application server (bpjava-susvc) runs.

    See About the Processes tab.

    Note:

    The output from each command instance is limited to 500 lines in the log file.

    Enable command line logs

    Enable this option to capture command-line activity into the log file. NetBackup writes information about the commands that reside in the following directories:

    • Windows:

      • install_path\NetBackup\bin

      • install_path\NetBackup\bin\admincmd

      • install_path\Volmgr\bin

    • UNIX:

      • /usr/openv/netbackup/bin

      • /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd

      • /usr/openv/volmgr/bin

    Note:

    The NetBackup Administration Console often uses APIs and not the NetBackup commands to get data or update data. In those cases, information is not written to the log file.

    Add date and timestamp to logs

    Enable this option to include a timestamp when NetBackup writes information to the log file.

    Enable job try logs

    Enable this option to capture logging information from the NetBackup Activity Monitor.

    Verbosity

    Use this option to set the verbosity of the logs. Five (5) is the highest logging level.

  4. Click OK.

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