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Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations, Version 6.1.2

Viewing the audit log

Monitor the health of the data-protection system by viewing the log of the central administration console server. The audit log records all interaction with the central administration console and with the clients.

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About this task

The audit log records events from the central administration server. If you are interested only in the events of an individual client, see the activity log for that client.

The audit log is located in the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server profiles folder. The audit log folder in a default installation path is C:\IBM\tivoli\Tipv2\profiles\TIPProfile. The audit log is composed of 10 files, named audit.log.0, audit.log.1...audit.log.9. File audit.log.0 logs the most recent activity and audit.log.9 logs the least recent activity.

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Procedure

  1. Open the Health Monitor task. The Health Monitor panel displays the following sections:
    • Clients Summary
    • Audit Logs
    • Alerts
    In the Audit Logs section, the most recent events are listed.
  2. Optional: To display more events, click More log entries . . ..
  3. Optional: Filter the log entries that are displayed.
    1. In the filter text field, type a text string.
    2. Click the arrow to the left of the filter text field.
    3. From the list of names in the Filter On box, select one or more column names.
    4. Click OK. The log entries are filtered according to your filter criteria.

      For example, if you typed *fail and selected the Message Text column name, all entries with fail in the message text are displayed.

      More strings are matched when you use wildcards in the filter text. An asterisk replaces several characters. A question mark replaces one character. If you use an asterisk or wildcard in the filter text, the blank space beyond the end of your filter text matches any text.

      Table 1. Filter strings and matching text
      Filter text string Matching text
      Jupiter Jupiter
      Jupiter?

      Jupiter
      Jupiter_bright_moon_light
      Jupiter_moon

      Jupiter?moon

      Jupiter_moon

      *moon

      Jupiter_bright_moon_light
      Jupiter_moon
      moon
      Saturn_moon
      Saturn_moon_light

  4. Optional: Order the entries by sorting on the values in any column.
    1. Click a column heading. The entries are ordered in ascending sequence according to the text in the cells of that column.
    2. Click the same column heading again. The entries are ordered in descending sequence according to the text in the cells of that column.
    3. Click another column heading. The entries are ordered in ascending sequence according to the text in the cells of that column.

What to do next

If you notice an issue with one or more clients, you can investigate the attributes, logs, and current configuration of those clients in the Clients task.
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