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Veritas NetBackup™ Logging Reference Guide

PBX logging

The Private Branch Exchange (PBX) logs are located at the following location on any master, media or client server:

UNIX: /opt/VRTSpbx/log

Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\VERITAS\VxPBX\log

The PBX log files can be critical when you troubleshoot secure communication issues. In these cases, you may have to increase the size and the number of log files as the defaults are to retain 5 log files at 1MG each. To increase the size of the log files to 50000 KB and number of log files to 20, use the vxlogcfg command, as follows:

Windows (in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Veritas\VxICS\logcfg\103):

C:\Program Files (x86)\VERITAS\VxPBX\bin\vxlogcfg  - a  - p 50936  - s "MaxLogFileSizeKB=50000"
   - o 103 
C:\Program Files (x86)\VERITAS\VxPBX\bin\vxlogcfg  - a  - p 50936  - s "NumberOfLogFiles=20"
   - o 103

This lets you capture 20 log files at 50 mg each.

UNIX:

  1. Use the vxlogcfg command to increase the size of the log files to 51200 KB and the number of log files to 10 as follows:

    UNIX (in /etc/vx/VxICS/icsul.conf):

    /opt/VRTSpbx/bin/vxlogcfg  - a  - p 50936  - s "MaxLogFileSizeKB=51200"  - o 103 
    /opt/VRTSpbx/bin/vxlogcfg  - a  - p 50936  - s "NumberOfLogFiles=10"  - o 103
  2. Change directories using the cd /opt/VRTSpbx/log command. Verify that the log files are increasing in size to more than 1 mg (it should read the change within 1 minute).

  3. To verify the PBX log settings, the configuration file can be viewed as follows:

    • Change your directory to /etc/vx/VxICS.

    • Use the cat icsul.conf command and verify that the changes were made.

    See the following example:

    cat icsul.conf
    ###############################################
    # Caution! Do not update/modify file by hand.
    # Use vxlogcfg tool to update/modify this file
    ###############################################
    103.DebugLevel=6
    103.AppMsgLogging=ON
    103.LogToOslog=false
    103.LogDirectory=/var/log/VRTSpbx/
    103.L10nResourceDir=/opt/VRTSpbx/resources
    103.L10nLib=/optVRTSpbx/lib/libvxexticu.so.3
    103.L10nResource=VxPBX
    103.MaxLogFileSizeKB=51200
    103.RolloverMode=FileSize
    103.NumberOfLogFiles=10
    103.LogRecycle=true
    

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