Domlog.nsf

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Hello,Im pretty new to domino so I hope I am making sense.

I have been using domlog to log all inotes usage. However, the log was growing and I wanted to put logrotate into use. I have my logrotate set up to rotate the domlog.nsf when I do a backup of the logs and mailboxes. this backup shuts down domino so nothing gets messed up during the backup and logrotate process. Logrotate creates a new domlog.nsf but now nothing gets logged to it. I tried restarting http but that didn’t work either.

Any ideas? Maybe another way of having domlog not to exceed a certain size then creating a new one? Thanks.

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Subject: domlog.nsf

Managing DomLog.nsf is an ongoing problem. There are a couple things to help minimize DomLog.nsf size. First filter everything you can in the Server Document i.e. all images and perhaps some file types.

The next is a little more of an issue. DomLog.nsf contains all of the Hits generated by the Domino HTTP task, however, many (most) of the Domino URLs are almost impossible to read and make any sense out of. Sooo, we developed Workflo!Log Analyzer that takes the Domino URL and decomposes it into real human readable information, complete with Daily, Weekly, and monthly statistics (plus custom period definition).

Once a Hit from the Domlog has been processed by the Log Analyzer it is no longer needed in DomLog.nsf so we recommend that you set the space saving settings on the Replication Tab to something like 7 days. This keeps DomLog.nsf at a managable size. Then in the the Log Analyzer once a hit has been processed by the Statistics Agent it can be removed. We typically keep 40 - 45 days of detail in the Log Analyzer to keep its size manageable.

I hope this has helped you! You can download a free demo of Workflo!log Analyzer from our site at http://www.wfs.com

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Subject: domlog.nsf

Hi Lisa,

You can control the size of the domlog in the replication properties, “delete all documents older than : X days”.

I don’t really know what is logrotate, and why you create a new domlog, you only need to rename the domlog and a new one (which works !) will be created when you launch the http task. You don’t need to shutdown your domino server, just :

  • Shutdown the HTTP task

  • Type “dbcache flush”

  • Do whatever you want with the domlog

  • Load the HTTP task

Theses steps can be done by some program documents or by a batch with some nserver commands (I don’t remember the switch, maybe -c)

Hope this helps

Christian

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Subject: RE: domlog.nsf

Thank you so much for responding…this looks like a great plan. I will try this today. Logrotate is a redhat utility which will schedule logs to be rotated each day, week, month at anytime you wish and even can be mailed to you each day. after the log rotates, it can create a new one as an option.

Thanks again.