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| -# The Cacti Log Interface |
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| -## Summary |
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| -The Cacti Log is where all Cacti statistics, warnings, errors and other log messages |
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| -are sent to. Cacti can optionally log some information to your syslog or event log |
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| -depending on your OS type. |
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| -The Cacti Log is by default ordered from newest event to oldest event, and the Cacti Log |
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| -is rotated by Cacti itself once a day. |
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| -If you have the User Level permission, you can view any available Cacti Stadard Output or |
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| -Standard Error log. If you have the Administrative level access, you may additionally purge |
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| -information from the logs. |
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| -As a Cacti Administrator, you have the ability to filter out some message types from users |
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| -for example, one message type that people like to filter out is "AUTH" messages that tell |
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| -you who is logging into the Cacti Web Site. You can edit these removal rules from the |
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| -Cacti Settings page. |
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| -An image of the Cacti Log file can be seen below. |
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| -## Cacti Log Filters |
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| -What we like to see in the Cacti Log is a lot of Green, which means good. By default, |
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| -WARNINGS are yellow, and ERRORS are red. But there are other types of messages that highlight |
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| -differently. Generally, you can filter for these message types. The filters include: |
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| -- **File** - The Cacti Log file to view. They are suffixed by a data when they were rotated |
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| - using the following pattern: YYYY-MM-DD. |
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| -- **Tail Lines** - The number of lines to view from the selected Cacti Log. |
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| -- **Types** - The message types to view. These will be explained below. |
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| -- **Display Order** - The order to display the Log lines, either *Newest First* or *Oldest First*. |
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| -- **Refresh** - How often to Auto-refresh the interface. |
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| -- **Search** - A perl compatible Regular Expression to search the log with. |
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| -The Cacti Log **Types** include the following: |
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| -- **Stats** - Anything that includes the word **STATS** |
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| -- **Warnings** - Anything that includes the word **WARNING** |
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| -- **Warnings++** - Anything of each **WARNING**, **ERROR**, **DEBUG**, and **SQL** |
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| - this one is good for debugging, and it will include most important errors to the Cacti |
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| - Administrator. |
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| -- **Errors** - Anything that includes the word **ERROR** |
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| -- **Errors++** - Anything of each **ERROR**, **DEBUG**, and **SQL** |
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| -- **Debug** - Anything that includes the word **DEBUG** |
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| -- **AutoM8** - Anything that includes the word **AUTOM8**. These message come from Cacti |
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| - automation of Devices, Graphs, and Trees |
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| -- **Non Stats** - Anything that does not includes the world **STATS**. |
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| -- **Boost** - Anything that contains the word **BOOST**. |
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| -- **Device Up/Down** - Any device Up/Down notification including those that come from |
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| - *Thold* or *Monitor* Plugins. |
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| -- **Recaches** - Any Device Recache Events. |
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| -- **Threshold** - If the *Thold* plugins is installed, any of it's threshold breach and |
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| - restoration events. |
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| -## Differences between User and Administrative Views |
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| -As previously mentioned, the Cacti log has two permission levels, the User Permission level |
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| -will not include the *Purge* button, and can have some information hidden from public view |
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| -whereas the Administrative view includes all Log messages and a *Purge** button. |
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| -<copy>Copyright (c) 2004-2022 The Cacti Group</copy> |
| 1 | +# The Cacti Log Interface |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +## Summary |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +The Cacti Log is where all Cacti statistics, warnings, errors and other log messages |
| 6 | +are sent to. Cacti can optionally log some information to your syslog or event log |
| 7 | +depending on your OS type. |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +The Cacti Log is by default ordered from newest event to oldest event, and the Cacti Log |
| 10 | +is rotated by Cacti itself once a day. |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +If you have the User Level permission, you can view any available Cacti Stadard Output or |
| 13 | +Standard Error log. If you have the Administrative level access, you may additionally purge |
| 14 | +information from the logs. |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +As a Cacti Administrator, you have the ability to filter out some message types from users |
| 17 | +for example, one message type that people like to filter out is "AUTH" messages that tell |
| 18 | +you who is logging into the Cacti Web Site. You can edit these removal rules from the |
| 19 | +Cacti Settings page. |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +An image of the Cacti Log file can be seen below. |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +## Cacti Log Filters |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +What we like to see in the Cacti Log is a lot of Green, which means good. By default, |
| 28 | +WARNINGS are yellow, and ERRORS are red. But there are other types of messages that highlight |
| 29 | +differently. Generally, you can filter for these message types. The filters include: |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +- **File** - The Cacti Log file to view. They are suffixed by a data when they were rotated |
| 32 | + using the following pattern: YYYY-MM-DD. |
| 33 | +- **Tail Lines** - The number of lines to view from the selected Cacti Log. |
| 34 | +- **Types** - The message types to view. These will be explained below. |
| 35 | +- **Display Order** - The order to display the Log lines, either *Newest First* or *Oldest First*. |
| 36 | +- **Refresh** - How often to Auto-refresh the interface. |
| 37 | +- **Search** - A perl compatible Regular Expression to search the log with. |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +The Cacti Log **Types** include the following: |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +- **Stats** - Anything that includes the word **STATS** |
| 42 | +- **Warnings** - Anything that includes the word **WARNING** |
| 43 | +- **Warnings++** - Anything of each **WARNING**, **ERROR**, **DEBUG**, and **SQL** |
| 44 | + this one is good for debugging, and it will include most important errors to the Cacti |
| 45 | + Administrator. |
| 46 | +- **Errors** - Anything that includes the word **ERROR** |
| 47 | +- **Errors++** - Anything of each **ERROR**, **DEBUG**, and **SQL** |
| 48 | +- **Debug** - Anything that includes the word **DEBUG** |
| 49 | +- **AutoM8** - Anything that includes the word **AUTOM8**. These message come from Cacti |
| 50 | + automation of Devices, Graphs, and Trees |
| 51 | +- **Non Stats** - Anything that does not includes the world **STATS**. |
| 52 | +- **Boost** - Anything that contains the word **BOOST**. |
| 53 | +- **Device Up/Down** - Any device Up/Down notification including those that come from |
| 54 | + *Thold* or *Monitor* Plugins. |
| 55 | +- **Recaches** - Any Device Recache Events. |
| 56 | +- **Threshold** - If the *Thold* plugins is installed, any of it's threshold breach and |
| 57 | + restoration events. |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +## Differences between User and Administrative Views |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +As previously mentioned, the Cacti log has two permission levels, the User Permission level |
| 62 | +will not include the *Purge* button, and can have some information hidden from public view |
| 63 | +whereas the Administrative view includes all Log messages and a *Purge** button. |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | +--- |
| 66 | +<copy>Copyright (c) 2004-2023 The Cacti Group</copy> |
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