Logging properties

The Logging properties apply to the master servers, media servers, and clients that are currently selected. The available properties differ between master servers, media servers, and clients.

The Logging properties contain the processes that continue to use legacy logging as well as processes that use unified logging.

Unified logging

Unified logging creates log file names and messages in a format that is standardized across Symantec products. Some NetBackup processes on the server use unified logging.

Unified logging writes the logs into subdirectories in the following locations:

  • UNIX: /usr/openv/logs

  • Windows: install_path\NetBackup\logs

Note:

Do not save logs to a remote file system such as NFS or CIFS. Logs that are stored remotely and then grow large can cause critical performance issues.

Unlike legacy logging, subdirectories for the processes that use unified logging are created automatically.

To control the size and number of unified logs, use the vxlogcfg command and the vxlogmgr command.

Legacy logging

For those processes that use legacy logging, administrators must first create a log directory for each process to be logged. A logging level selection on the Logging properties page does not enable logging.

Create the NetBackup legacy log directories in the following locations:

  • UNIX: /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/process_name

  • Windows: install_path\NetBackup\logs\process_name

Note:

Do not save logs to a remote file system such as NFS or CIFS. Logs that are stored remotely and then grow large can cause critical performance issues.

On a Windows server, you can create all of the NetBackup debug log directories at one time by double-clicking mklogdir.bat in the following directory:

install_path\NetBackup\logs\

Create the Media Manager legacy log directories in the following locations:

  • UNIX: /usr/openv/volmgr/debug

  • Windows: install_path\Volmgr\debug

For details on both unified and legacy logging, see the NetBackup Troubleshooting Guide.

The Logging properties can contain the following options.

See Enable robust logging.

See Global logging level.

See Process specific overrides.

See Debug logging levels for NetBackup services.