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Overview

The Statseeker Log Viewer allows you to review the contents of various logs produced by the Statseeker process or by the underlying operating system for the server on which Statseeker resides. Logs can also be downloaded for sending through to Statseeker Support, downloaded logs are automatically compressed for transport.
These logs include:

  • Statseeker Messages - Error and log messages from the Statseeker processes
  • Dashboards Log - Error and log messages from Statseeker dashboards
  • HTTP/HTTPS Access and Error logs - details on HTTP/S requests made to the Statseeker Web Server and error messages generated by this server
  • HTTPS SSL Requests - Log of the SSL certificate requests made to the Statseeker server
  • Perl Warnings and Errors - Error and log messages from the Perl scripts utilized by Statseeker's back-end
  • Python Logs - Error and log messages from the Python scripts used by Statseeker's Custom Reporting system
  • Statseeker Discover Log - Complete log of the latest Discover process
  • Statseeker Entity Build Log - Messages generated by Statseeker's Entity build and configuration process
  • Statseeker Entity Remap Log - Messages generated by Statseeker's Entity remapping process
  • Cron Messages - messages generated by the server's Cron process
  • Email Log - messages generated by the server's SMTP server
  • System Messages - operating system log and error messages
  • Statseeker Discover Logs - output from recent discovery processes

The Log Viewer also provides basic search and filtering options via regex to assist in locating messages and troubleshooting.

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View & Filter Statseeker Log Files

To review the Statseeker logs:

  • Select Administration Tool > Statseeker Administration > Log Viewer
  • Use the dropdowns to select the log to be viewed and the number of lines to be displayed
  • Optionally enter a regex expression (case insensitive) to filter the results
Note: the Filter is applied to the entire log contents, the Lines value specifies how many of those filtered lines to return. For example:

  • Lines = 50; Filter = [blank] will return the last (most recent) 50 lines of the selected log file
  • Lines = 50; Filter = pci26 will return the most recent 50 lines of the selected log file featuring the string pci26


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Downloading Logs

Logs can also be downloaded for review by external parties such as Statseeker Support. When a logfile is downloaded:

  • The line limit is ignored and the entire logfile is downloaded
  • The file is automatically compressed for transport

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Discovery Logs

When viewing discovery logs you can select from a list of recent discovery processes (ranges, hosts, rewalks, single, ping-only and SNMPv3) and filter the output of the selected discovery process as needed.

Statseeker stores up to 70Mb of compressed discovery logs prior to rotating log files, this should account for at least 3 months' worth of daily rewalk logs for the largest of networks (over 500,000 monitored interfaces) and years' of logs for most users.


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