Rotation of Event Log (Journal) in Reporter Version 9.

Products

• Reporter

Issue/Introduction

By default the journals are kept in a folder, off the root install folder for Reporter.

The default install folders

• For LINUX, that folder would be opt/bc/reporter/journal
• For Windows, that folder would be <installed drive>\Program Files\Bluecoat Reporter 9\journal

 

Resolution

Journals are rotated once their size reaches the size of about 5,212 KB.  Once this trigger is reached, a new journal is generated.  The journal named indicates the date, and time it was created.

NOTE: There is no way to manually trigger a rotation.

Journals can be configured for a non-default location, of your choice, by navigating to this place in the User Interface:

• Login to Reporter, with you Admin account, and navigate to the the Administration section of the the User Interface.
• Click on the General settings tab.
• Click on System settings, and expand it.
• Click on the option "Directories".
• Here you can change the journals folder, which is called "System Event Log Directory"

NOTE: The new journal will not be created untill a Reporter service restart is triggered.

 

NOTE: For information on how to read the journals, in Reporter, see 000014639