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SafeLinx Administrator
The SafeLinx Administrator is a Java application that lets administrators configure, monitor, and maintain the resources of one or more SafeLinx Servers.
Troubleshooting problems
SafeLinx helps you troubleshoot problems.
Configuring the syslogd messaging facility
Through the syslogd messaging facility, you can send event messages to a finite list of facilities.

SafeLinx Administrator
The SafeLinx Administrator is a Java application that lets administrators configure, monitor, and maintain the resources of one or more SafeLinx Servers.
- Controlling resources and organizational units
  SafeLinx gives you control over all resources and organizational units.
- Customizing network configuration
  SafeLinx lets you customize your network configuration.
- Configuring for security
  SafeLinx includes options for configuring security.
- Managing administrators
  SafeLinx provides the tools to manage administrators.
- Managing users
  SafeLinx provides the tools to manage users.
- Troubleshooting problems
  SafeLinx helps you troubleshoot problems.
  - Viewing status for more than one SafeLinx Server
    Administrators can view more than one SafeLinx Server in a single window.
  - Setting log files
    You can manage recorded information through trace logs, message logs, and account logs.
  - Configuring the syslogd messaging facility
    Through the syslogd messaging facility, you can send event messages to a finite list of facilities.
  - Viewing logs: message, trace, and account
    Admins can view and manage the display of message logs, trace logs, and account logs.
  - Starting user tracing
    User tracing allows you to debug a problem with a user account.
  - Setting SafeLinx Administrator console output
    You can direct trace and messaging log information to the console, and then manage the console output.
  - Setting SafeLinx Administrator message log options
    You can choose to direct SafeLinx Administrator messages to either a message log file or to a console. You can specify the level of messages that are directed to each.
  - Setting SafeLinx Administrator trace options
    You can direct real-time status information about SafeLinx Administrator to a trace file and to a console.
- What is...
  SafeLinx Administrator Help identifies and clarifies necessary topics.

Configuring the syslogd messaging facility

Through the syslogd messaging facility, you can send event messages to a finite list of facilities.

The syslogd daemon is a system logging utility that is a transport mechanism for sending event messages. It supports a finite list of facilities that is not extendable (at least not on all platforms). All SafeLinx Server components use the user facility when they generate messages for syslogd.

Note: syslogd is not supported on Windows.

To configure the syslogd to write all user-friendly facility messages to a specific log file, add this line to the /etc/syslogd.conf file:

user.*/tmp/cmlogs.out

The priority facility can also be refined to send high priority to a different file from all other messages. The syslogd priorities can be mapped to SafeLinx Server log levels.

SafeLinx Server log level	Syslogd priorities	Description
error	err	Messages about unexpected events on which you must take action
warn	warning	Messages about events on which you may or may not need to take action
log	info	General information messages
trcart	info	Hexadecimal dump of data packets
trcip	info	Hexadecimal dump of only IP-related data packets
status	info	Dump of status information, such as packet rates, byte rates, and system load
tcp-lite	info	Messages about data using the TCP-Lite transport
debug	debug	Data used for problem analysis

The following examples make use of priority to log messages to different files.

user.err;user.warn /tmp/cmlog.err

user.info /tmp/cmlog.log

When changes are made to the syslog.conf file, the syslogd must be refreshed or restarted.

Before you refresh or restart the syslogd daemon, make sure that the files that you are using to log messages exist on the file system.

There are several other options for configuring options such as the maximum log file sizes, time/date format, or sending logs to a remote server. Consult your operating system documentation for this specific information.

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