How to generate a new console.log?

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Domino/Notes Version: 12.0.2FP7
When you halt the server and start it back up it takes the old console.log and renames it to console_servername_YYYY_MM_DD@HH_MM_SS.log then creates a new console.log upon startup.

Is there a less disruptive way of generating this time-in-place console log file?

I tried STOP CONSOLELOG followed by START CONSOLELOG but that did not generate a new file.

Goal: send the last console*.log to our siem.

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Hi, Rob.

The only way to create a brand new console.log is to restart the Domino server.

We have an option to enable Console Log Mirroring but this will not totally create a brand new console.log. This feature creates a secondary thread that monitors console.log and mirrors it to a new file. When that mirrored file reaches a certain size, Domino automatically closes it and starts a new one (e.g., console1.log, console2.log), effectively giving you the rotation you want without a restart.

Regards,

Ian

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That’s a big help. Any chance that they could add a rotation not based on size, but on time interval instead? This would help for sending off to our SIEM at intervals.

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Hi, Rob.

Currently the console mirroring is based on size. It is a wonderful idea to enable your recommendation. We strongly suggest that you can have this enhancement logged in the HCL dominoforever Product Idea Portal: https://domino-ideas.hcltechsw.com/

HCL Domino development team will evaluate your suggestion, provided it is not hampering any existing functionality of Notes.

Regards,

Ian

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Allow console log to roll over by duration | HCL Domino Ideas Portal

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What happens when you get to console999.log?

If I have console1.log through console75.log and then purge off console1.log through console25.log, will the next file be console1.log instead of console76.log? From the doc: If console10.log exists, console9.log and then console11.log are created.

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Another question.

I’m looking for a pattern of %console%.log. In order to only get the mirrors and not the live would it work to use something like

Debug_Outfile=debug.txt

Which generates debug.txt and debug_servername_… instead of console.log, console_servername_…

Some ancient carry over from pre Domino 9 to get console logging. It doth confuse me and support line when I forget I use it though. And, not on all servers.