Enabling Logging of System Events

Enable System Events is required to activate any logging. This TDV configuration parameter must be enabled to enable a variety of logging and trigger functionality.

The instructions in this section are required to activate any event logging.

To enable system events

1. Start the TDV Server.
2. Open and log in to Studio as an admin user.
3. From the Administration menu, choose Configuration.
4. Navigate to Server > Events and Logging.
5. Set Enable System Events to True.
6. Optionally, configure the parameters under the Event Generation node.

Events log file

Enabling the System events, allows all the system events to be logged in the cs_server_events.log file. This log file is a tab-delimited file with the following fields:

Field

Type

Description

Date

TIMESTAMP

Date and time the event was logged.

Severity

VARCHAR

The severity of the event.

Status

VARCHAR

The status of the event.

Description

VARCHAR

The short description of the event.

Type ID

INTEGER

The ID that identifies the type of event that occurred.

User Name

VARCHAR

The user that has logged in.

Domain Name

VARCHAR

The name of the domain.

SNMP ID

BIGINT

The SNMP ID of the event.

Event ID

BIGINT

The unique ID for this event.

Parent ID

BIGINT

The ID for the parent of this event. It will be the same as the EVENT_ID if it has no parent.