Dell OpenManage and their TTY logs

[Kaj Niemi]

Hi,


As you have RHEL5 I'm kind of assuming you have logrotate installed.  
If so, create /etc/logrotate.d/omsa-tty (name doesn't matter)  
containing approximately the following:

/var/log/TTY_00000000.log {
     missingok
     daily
     notifempty
     rotate 15
     compress
}

Once the file gets rotated OMSA will create another. If daily is too  
aggressive try "weekly" instead.



On Oct 6, 2008, at 12:36, Tobias Sandhaas wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> on most on our servers we have a bunch of TTY and EMM
> logs (eg TTY_00000000.log) which are already huge and
> are continuously increasing in size.
>
> First of all it is rather disturbing to have a program
> directly write important files to /var/log/. Normally
> such information should not be written directly but
> by using system tools like syslog. By doing this other
> tools (like log-analysis tools) are easily able to handle
> these information and the burden on the administrator side
> is reduced.
>
> Additionally the current state is not satisfactory. That
> means that i am not able to rotate/clear/disable the
> exiting logfiles. Everytime i remove or truncate the
> logfiles, they will be rewritten with exactly *all*
> the older informations, i am not interested in. For
> example raid/SAS informations which are months old!
> It is not only the size which matters, but in fact the
> inability to control these informations.
>
> Remark: I have tried all things i can image, like
> - truncating the TTY files (zero size)
> - removing the TTY files
> - Restarting the OM-Services (dataeng + dsm_om_shrsvc)
> - Stopping the OM-Services, truncating logfiles and Re-starting.
>
>
> My question:
> - Is there any way to really rotate the logfiles?
>   (Did i oversee something?)
> - If not, is there a way to disable the logfiles?
>
> I urge the developers to think and improve this log situation
> as soon as possible! This is not acceptable for us. I really
> recommend a syslog-logging feature.
>
>
> Example Hardware:
> Poweredge 1950 with Perc5e + Perc5i + md1000
> with up-to-date firmware, Dell OM 5.2 and current RHEL5 kernel.
>
>
> Regards
> Tobias Sandhaas
> -- 
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>
>
>
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Kaj
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