Smarts NCM: How to change the Server.log to have to 5 rollover instances instead of 10.

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - NCM

Resolution

How to change the Server rollover log instances from 10 to 5. 


**Please note in doing this change it will require a restart of all the services (service vcmaster restart) on the Application Server. Please cancel or stop all jobs before making the changes.**

1. Log into the CLI of the Application Server. 
2. Run source /etc/voyence.conf  
3. Make a backup copy of the file by doing: cp $VOYENCE_HOME/ncmcore/webapps/ncm-webapp/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.xml $VOYENCE_HOME/ncmcore/webapps/ncm-webapp/WEB-INF/classes/bkup_log4j.xml
4.  Edit the file: vi $VOYENCE_HOME/ncmcore/webapps/ncm-webapp/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.xml
5. Search for the following section:

   <!-- A time/date based rolling appender -->
   <appender name="FILE" class="org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender">
      <param name="File" value="/opt/smarts-ncm/ncmcore/logs/server.log"/>
      <param name="Append" value="true"/>
      <param name="Threshold" value="INFO"/>
      <param name="MaxFileSize" value="200MB"/>
      <param name="MaxBackupIndex" value="10"/>

6. In the line <param name="MaxBackupIndex" value="10"/> change the value="10" to value="5"
7. Save and exit you changes.
8. Perform a service restart: service vcmaster restart 

Please note you will still see server logs 6 thru 10 (Server.6.log thur Server.10.log) , but NCM won't be creating or writing to them. You will need to manually delete them to clear up the disk space.