SSMC log files

SSMC has four logging levels, in increasing levels of severity.
INFO

Designates informational messages that show the progress of a request at a high level.

WARN

Designates potentially harmful situations, or errors that the server was able to handle.

ERROR

Designates errors that should not occur per the design of the system, but would allow the server to continue operating.

FATAL

Designates severe errors that would prevent the server from starting successfully, or would cause the server to crash if already running.

A list of log files and their default locations follows.

Log file name

Directory location

Contents

audit.log

Logical location: /opt/hpe/ssmc/ssmcbase/data/logs

Physical location: /var/opt/hpe/ssmc/data/logs

Helps the Security Administrator monitor and enforce security policy. audit.log contains the following columns:
  • System Name – Name of HPE 3PAR and HPE Primera Storage System array if available; the IP address if not.
  • Action – One of the following actions: CREATE, DELETE, UPDATE, LOGIN, READ, STARTUP, SHUTDOWN, ARRAY ACTION, or UNKNOWN.
  • Result – One of the following results: SUCCESS, FAILURE, SOME_FAILURES, CANCELLED, KILLED, INFO, OPERATION, FORBIDDEN, UNAUTHORIZED, TASK CREATED, or UNKNOWN
  • Severity – One of the following classifications: INFO, WARNING, CRITICAL, or UNKNOWN.

Retention policy: Maximum size: 10 MB, Maximum rollover files: 10.

You can modify the file retention policy in this file: /opt/hpe/ssmc/ssmcbase/resources/log4j2.json.

Restart SSMC after the file settings.

metrics.log

Logical location: /opt/hpe/ssmc/ssmcbase/data/logs

Physical location: /var/opt/hpe/ssmc/data/logs

Shows the number of objects in the SSMC cache. Use the Metrics Cache stats output to calculate the total number of objects managed by SSMC.

Retention policy: Maximum size: 100 MB, Maximum rollover files: 10.

You can modify the file retention policy in this file: /opt/hpe/ssmc/ssmcbase/resources/log4j2.json.

Restart SSMC after the file settings.

rest_history.log

Audit entries for GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE requests. Intended for internal, development troubleshooting.

Retention policy: Maximum size: 10 MB, Maximum rollover files: 10.

You can modify the file retention policy in this file: /opt/hpe/ssmc/ssmcbase/resources/log4j2.json.

Restart SSMC after the file settings.

ssmc.log

Helps the Application Administrator gauge the health of the product and troubleshoot customer issues along with field support.

Retention policy: Maximum size: 100 MB, Maximum rollover files: 10.

You can modify the file retention policy in this file: /opt/hpe/ssmc/ssmcbase/resources/log4j2.json.

Restart SSMC after the file settings.

tclapi.audit

Logical location: /opt/hpe/SSMC/ssmcbase/data/InFormMC/log

Physical location: /var/opt/hpe/SSMC/data/InForm/log

Audit entries for commands sent to each connected HPE 3PAR and HPE Primera Storage System array.

Retention policy: Maximum size: 10 MB, Maximum rollover files: 10.

You can modify the file retention policy in this file: /opt/hpe/ssmc/ssmcbase/resources/log4j2.json.

Restart SSMC after the file settings.

wrapper.log

Logical location: /opt/hpe/ssmc/ssmcbase/data/logs

Physical location: /var/opt/hpe/ssmc/data/logs

This file contains all the logging information from the YAJSW (Yet Another Java Service Wrapper), and all the console output from the SSMC product. This file might not mirror all the content of ssmc.log. If SSMC output goes to the log file only, then the wrapper.log does not contain the data.Wrapper information includes the YAJSW version, OS type, JVM version, working directory, service start info, the PID of the started application, and so on. The console output of the application contains the PID instant of "wrapper" in the output line in the second field.

Retention policy: Maximum size: 10 MB, Maximum rollover files: 10.

You cannot modify the file retention policy.

archiveLogs

This file contains the older files in compressed format.

Retention policy: Maximum size: 100 MB, Maximum rollover files: 10.

You can modify the file retention policy in this file: /opt/hpe/ssmc/ssmcbase/resources/log4j2.json.

Restart SSMC after the file settings.

datapollers.log

Logical location: /opt/hpe/ssmc/ssmcbase/data/logs

Physical location: /var/opt/hpe/ssmc/data/logs

This file contains log entries for the start and stops of all the polling jobs to fetch data from the array.

Retention policy: Maximum size: 100 MB, Maximum rollover files: 10.

You can modify the file retention policy in this file: /opt/hpe/ssmc/ssmcbase/resources/log4j2.json.

Restart SSMC after the file settings.

diag.log

Logical location: /opt/hpe/ssmc/ssmcbase/data/logs

Physical location: /var/opt/hpe/ssmc/data/logs

This file contains JRE-related stats, which are printed every minute.

Retention policy: Maximum size: 100 MB, Maximum rollover files: 2.

You can modify the file retention policy in this file: /opt/hpe/ssmc/ssmcbase/resources/log4j2.json.

Restart SSMC after the file settings.

events.log

Logical location: /opt/hpe/ssmc/ssmcbase/data/logs

Physical location: /var/opt/hpe/ssmc/data/logs

This file logs all the events arriving from all the arrays to which the SSMC server is connected to.

Retention policy: Maximum size: 100 MB, Maximum rollover files: 10.

You can modify the file retention policy in this file: /opt/hpe/ssmc/ssmcbase/resources/log4j2.json.

Restart SSMC after the file settings.

eventsthrottle.log

Logical location: /opt/hpe/ssmc/ssmcbase/data/logs

Physical location: /var/opt/hpe/ssmc/data/logs

This file logs all the internal events generated, and any throttling applied to poller scheduler because of slow array response.

Retention policy: Maximum size: 100 MB, Maximum rollover files: 10.

You can modify the file retention policy in this file: /opt/hpe/ssmc/ssmcbase/resources/log4j2.json.

Restart SSMC after the file settings.

vmcollectparser.log

Logical location: /opt/hpe/ssmc/ssmcbase/data/logs

Physical location: /var/opt/hpe/ssmc/data/logs

This file contains logs generated by the VM collection parser service.

Retention policy: Maximum size: 10 MB, Maximum rollover files: 0.

You cannot modify the file retention policy.

Restart SSMC after the file settings.