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File Based Access Log Publisher

Note: this component is designated "advanced", which means that objects of this type are not expected to be created or altered in most environments. If you believe that such a change is necessary, you may want to contact support in order to understand the potential impact of that change.

File Based Access Log Publishers publish access messages to the file system.

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↓dsconfig Usage

Parent Component

The File Based Access Log Publisher component inherits from the Writer Based Access Log Publisher

Relations from This Component

The following components have a direct aggregation relation from File Based Access Log Publishers:

Log File Rotation Listener

Log Retention Policy

Log Rotation Policy

Properties

The properties supported by this managed object are as follows:

General Configuration Basic Properties:	Advanced Properties:
↓ description	None
↓ enabled
↓ logging-error-behavior
Log File Management Basic Properties:	Advanced Properties:
↓ log-file	↓ compression-mechanism
↓ log-file-permissions
↓ rotation-policy
↓ rotation-listener
↓ retention-policy
↓ sign-log
↓ encrypt-log
↓ encryption-settings-definition-id
↓ append
Log Messages To Include Basic Properties:	Advanced Properties:
↓ log-connects	None
↓ log-disconnects
↓ log-security-negotiation
↓ log-client-certificates
↓ log-requests
↓ log-results
↓ log-search-entries
↓ log-search-references
↓ log-intermediate-responses
↓ suppress-internal-operations
↓ suppress-replication-operations
↓ correlate-requests-and-results
Log Message Elements To Include Basic Properties:	Advanced Properties:
↓ include-product-name	↓ include-thread-id
↓ include-instance-name
↓ include-startup-id
↓ include-requester-dn
↓ include-requester-ip-address
↓ include-request-details-in-result-messages
↓ include-request-details-in-search-entry-messages
↓ include-request-details-in-search-reference-messages
↓ include-request-details-in-intermediate-response-messages
↓ include-result-code-names
↓ include-extended-search-request-details
↓ include-add-attribute-names
↓ include-modify-attribute-names
↓ include-search-entry-attribute-names
↓ include-request-controls
↓ include-response-controls
Other Configuration Basic Properties:	Advanced Properties:
↓ timestamp-precision	↓ asynchronous
	↓ auto-flush
	↓ max-string-length
	↓ queue-size
	↓ buffer-size
	↓ time-interval

Basic Properties

description

Property Group	General Configuration
Description	A description for this Log Publisher
Default Value	None
Allowed Values	A string
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

enabled

Property Group	General Configuration
Description	Indicates whether the Log Publisher is enabled for use.
Default Value	None
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	Yes
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

logging-error-behavior

Property Group	General Configuration
Description	Specifies the behavior that the server should exhibit if an error occurs during logging processing.
Default Value	standard-error
Allowed Values	standard-error - Write a message to standard error in the event of a logging failure. lockdown-mode - Place the server in lockdown mode in the event of a logging failure.
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

log-file

Property Group	Log File Management
Description	The file name to use for the log files generated by the File Based Access Log Publisher. The path to the file can be specified either as relative to the server root or as an absolute path.
Default Value	None
Allowed Values	A filesystem path
Multi-Valued	No
Required	Yes
Admin Action Required	The File Based Access Log Publisher must be disabled and re-enabled for changes to this setting to take effect. In order for this modification to take effect, the component must be restarted, either by disabling and re-enabling it, or by restarting the server

log-file-permissions

Property Group	Log File Management
Description	The UNIX permissions of the log files created by this File Based Access Log Publisher.
Default Value	600
Allowed Values	A valid UNIX mode string. The mode string must contain three digits between zero and seven.
Multi-Valued	No
Required	Yes
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

rotation-policy

Property Group	Log File Management
Description	The rotation policy to use for the File Based Access Log Publisher . When multiple policies are used, rotation will occur if any policy's conditions are met.
Default Value	No rotation policy is used and log rotation will not occur.
Allowed Values	The DN of any Log Rotation Policy.
Multi-Valued	Yes
Required	Yes
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

rotation-listener

Property Group	Log File Management
Description	A listener that should be notified whenever a log file is rotated out of service.
Default Value	None
Allowed Values	The DN of any Log File Rotation Listener. If this File Based Access Log Publisher is enabled, then the associated log file rotation listener must also be enabled.
Multi-Valued	Yes
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

retention-policy

Property Group	Log File Management
Description	The retention policy to use for the File Based Access Log Publisher . When multiple policies are used, log files are cleaned when any of the policy's conditions are met.
Default Value	No retention policy is used and log files are never cleaned.
Allowed Values	The DN of any Log Retention Policy.
Multi-Valued	Yes
Required	Yes
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

sign-log

Property Group	Log File Management
Description	Indicates whether the log should be cryptographically signed so that the log content cannot be altered in an undetectable manner. Log file signatures can be validated using the validate-file-signature tool provided with the server. Note that when enabling signing for a logger that already exists and was enabled without signing, the first log file will not be completely verifiable because it will still contain unsigned content from before signing was enabled. Only log files whose entire content was written with signing enabled will be considered completely valid. For the same reason, if a log file is still open for writing, then signature validation will not indicate that the log is completely valid because the log will not include the necessary "end signed content" indicator at the end of the file.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	The File Based Access Log Publisher must be disabled and re-enabled for changes to this setting to take effect. In order for this modification to take effect, the component must be restarted, either by disabling and re-enabling it, or by restarting the server

encrypt-log (Read-Only)

Property Group	Log File Management
Description	Indicates whether log files should be encrypted so that their content is not available to unauthorized users. If this property is configured with a value of true, then log data will be encrypted using a key generated from an encryption settings definition. If the encryption-settings-definition-id property has a value, then the specified encryption settings definition will be used; otherwise, the server's preferred encryption settings definition will be used. For best compatibility, you should use an encryption settings definition that was created from a user-supplied passphrase, so that passphrase can be used to decrypt its content. If this property is configured with a value of false, then log data will not be encrypted. Encrypted log files can be decrypted on the command line with the encrypt-file tool (using the --decrypt argument). Encrypted log files can be accessed programmatically using the com.unboundid.util.PassphraseEncryptedInputStream class in the UnboundID LDAP SDK for Java. If a log file is to be encrypted, then you will also likely want to enable compression (by giving the compression-mechanism property a value of 'gzip'). This will reduce the amount of data that needs to be encrypted, and will also dramatically reduce the size of the log files that are generated.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	The File Based Access Log Publisher must be disabled and re-enabled for changes to this setting to take effect. In order for this modification to take effect, the component must be restarted, either by disabling and re-enabling it, or by restarting the server

encryption-settings-definition-id

Property Group	Log File Management
Description	Specifies the ID of the encryption settings definition that should be used to encrypt the data. If this is not provided, the server's preferred encryption settings definition will be used. The "encryption-settings list" command can be used to obtain a list of the encryption settings definitions available in the server.
Default Value	None
Allowed Values	A string
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

append

Property Group	Log File Management
Description	Specifies whether to append to existing log files.
Default Value	true
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

log-connects

Property Group	Log Messages To Include
Description	Indicates whether to log information about connections established to the server.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

log-disconnects

Property Group	Log Messages To Include
Description	Indicates whether to log information about connections that have been closed by the client or terminated by the server.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

log-security-negotiation

Property Group	Log Messages To Include
Description	Indicates whether to log information about the result of any security negotiation (e.g., SSL handshake) processing that has been performed.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

log-client-certificates

Property Group	Log Messages To Include
Description	Indicates whether to log information about any client certificates presented to the server.
Default Value	true
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

log-requests

Property Group	Log Messages To Include
Description	Indicates whether to log information about requests received from clients.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

log-results

Property Group	Log Messages To Include
Description	Indicates whether to log information about the results of client requests.
Default Value	true
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

log-search-entries

Property Group	Log Messages To Include
Description	Indicates whether to log information about search result entries sent to the client.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

log-search-references

Property Group	Log Messages To Include
Description	Indicates whether to log information about search result references sent to the client.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

log-intermediate-responses

Property Group	Log Messages To Include
Description	Indicates whether to log information about intermediate responses sent to the client.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

suppress-internal-operations

Property Group	Log Messages To Include
Description	Indicates whether internal operations (for example, operations that are initiated by plugins) should be logged along with the operations that are requested by users.
Default Value	true
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

suppress-replication-operations

Property Group	Log Messages To Include
Description	Indicates whether access messages that are generated by replication operations should be suppressed.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

correlate-requests-and-results

Property Group	Log Messages To Include
Description	Indicates whether to automatically log result messages for any operation in which the corresponding request was logged. In such cases, the result, entry, and reference criteria will be ignored, although the log-responses, log-search-entries, and log-search-references properties will be honored.
Default Value	true
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

include-product-name

Property Group	Log Message Elements To Include
Description	Indicates whether log messages should include the product name for the PingAuthorize Server.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

include-instance-name

Property Group	Log Message Elements To Include
Description	Indicates whether log messages should include the instance name for the PingAuthorize Server.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

include-startup-id

Property Group	Log Message Elements To Include
Description	Indicates whether log messages should include the startup ID for the PingAuthorize Server, which is a value assigned to the server instance at startup and may be used to identify when the server has been restarted.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

include-requester-dn

Property Group	Log Message Elements To Include
Description	Indicates whether log messages for operation requests should include the DN of the authenticated user for the client connection on which the operation was requested.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

include-requester-ip-address

Property Group	Log Message Elements To Include
Description	Indicates whether log messages for operation requests should include the IP address of the client that requested the operation.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

include-request-details-in-result-messages

Property Group	Log Message Elements To Include
Description	Indicates whether log messages for operation results should include information about both the request and the result. This option can be used to eliminate the need to log request messages, and can eliminate the need to read multiple lines in order to obtain the full set of information logged for an operation.
Default Value	true
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

include-request-details-in-search-entry-messages

Property Group	Log Message Elements To Include
Description	Indicates whether log messages for search result entries should include information about the associated search request. This option can be used to eliminate the need to log request messages, and can eliminate the need to read multiple lines in order to obtain the full set of information logged for an operation.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

include-request-details-in-search-reference-messages

Property Group	Log Message Elements To Include
Description	Indicates whether log messages for search result references should include information about the associated search request. This option can be used to eliminate the need to log request messages, and can eliminate the need to read multiple lines in order to obtain the full set of information logged for an operation.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

include-request-details-in-intermediate-response-messages

Property Group	Log Message Elements To Include
Description	Indicates whether log messages for intermediate responses should include information about the associated operation request. This option can be used to eliminate the need to log request messages, and can eliminate the need to read multiple lines in order to obtain the full set of information logged for an operation.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

include-result-code-names

Property Group	Log Message Elements To Include
Description	Indicates whether result log messages should include human-readable names for result codes in addition to their numeric values.
Default Value	true
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

include-extended-search-request-details

Property Group	Log Message Elements To Include
Description	Indicates whether log messages for search requests should include extended information from the request, including the requested size limit, time limit, alias dereferencing behavior, and types only behavior.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

include-add-attribute-names

Property Group	Log Message Elements To Include
Description	Indicates whether log messages for add requests should include a list of the names of the attributes included in the entry to add.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

include-modify-attribute-names

Property Group	Log Message Elements To Include
Description	Indicates whether log messages for modify requests should include a list of the names of the attributes to be modified.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

include-search-entry-attribute-names

Property Group	Log Message Elements To Include
Description	Indicates whether log messages for search result entries should include a list of the names of the attributes included in the entry that was returned.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

include-request-controls

Property Group	Log Message Elements To Include
Description	Indicates whether log messages for operation requests should include a list of the OIDs of any controls included in the request.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

include-response-controls

Property Group	Log Message Elements To Include
Description	Indicates whether log messages for operation results should include a list of the OIDs of any controls included in the result.
Default Value	false
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

timestamp-precision

Property Group	Other Configuration
Description	Specifies the smallest time unit to be included in timestamps.
Default Value	milliseconds
Allowed Values	seconds - Timestamps will be precise to the nearest second. milliseconds - Timestamps will be precise to the nearest millisecond.
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

Advanced Properties

compression-mechanism (Advanced Property, Read-Only)

Property Group	Log File Management
Description	Specifies the type of compression (if any) to use for log files that are written. Note that this setting cannot be changed once the logger has been created, because of the possibility of mixing compressed and uncompressed data in the same file. Further, because it is difficult to append to a compressed file, any existing active log file will automatically be rotated when the server is started. If compressed logging is used, it may also be desirable to have another logger enabled that does not use compression. The rotation and retention policies for the uncompressed logger can be configured to minimize the amount of space it consumes, but having ready access to information about recent operations in uncompressed form may be convenient for debugging purposes. Alternately, you could consider having the uncompressed logger defined but not enabled so that it can be turned on as needed for debugging such problems.
Default Value	none
Allowed Values	none - No compression will be performed. gzip - Compress file data using gzip with the default compression level. If this compression level is specified, then files will automatically be given a ".gz" extension.
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

include-thread-id (Advanced Property)

Property Group	Log Message Elements To Include
Description	Indicates whether log messages should include the thread ID for the PingAuthorize Server in each log message. This ID can be used to correlate log messages from the same thread within a single log as well as generated by the same thread across different types of log files. More information about the thread with a specific ID can be obtained using the cn=JVM Stack Trace,cn=monitor entry.
Default Value	true
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

asynchronous (Advanced Property)

Property Group	Other Configuration
Description	Indicates whether the Writer Based Access Log Publisher will publish records asynchronously.
Default Value	true
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	Yes
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

auto-flush (Advanced Property)

Property Group	Other Configuration
Description	Specifies whether to flush the writer after every log record. If the asynchronous writes option is used, the writer is flushed after all the log records in the queue are written.
Default Value	true
Allowed Values	true false
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

max-string-length (Advanced Property)

Property Group	Other Configuration
Description	Specifies the maximum number of characters that may be included in any string in a log message before that string is truncated and replaced with a placeholder indicating the number of characters that were omitted. This can help prevent extremely long log messages from being written. A value of zero indicates that no limit will be imposed.
Default Value	2000
Allowed Values	An integer value. Lower limit is 0.
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

queue-size (Advanced Property)

Property Group	Other Configuration
Description	The maximum number of log records that can be stored in the asynchronous queue. The server will continuously flush messages from the queue to the log. That is, it does not wait for the queue to fill up before flushing to the log. Lowering this value can impact performance.
Default Value	10000
Allowed Values	An integer value. Lower limit is 1000. Upper limit is 100000 .
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	The Writer Based Access Log Publisher must be restarted if this property is changed and the asynchronous property is set to true.

buffer-size (Advanced Property)

Property Group	Other Configuration
Description	Specifies the log file buffer size.
Default Value	64kb
Allowed Values	A positive integer representing a size. Lower limit is 1.
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

time-interval (Advanced Property)

Property Group	Other Configuration
Description	Specifies the interval at which to check whether the log files need to be rotated.
Default Value	5s
Allowed Values	A duration. Lower limit is 1 milliseconds.
Multi-Valued	No
Required	No
Admin Action Required	None. Modification requires no further action

dsconfig Usage

To list the configured Log Publishers:

dsconfig list-log-publishers
     [--property {propertyName}] ...

To view the configuration for an existing Log Publisher:

dsconfig get-log-publisher-prop
     --publisher-name {name}
     [--tab-delimited]
     [--script-friendly]
     [--property {propertyName}] ...

To update the configuration for an existing Log Publisher:

dsconfig set-log-publisher-prop
     --publisher-name {name}
     (--set|--add|--remove) {propertyName}:{propertyValue}
     [(--set|--add|--remove) {propertyName}:{propertyValue}] ...

To create a new File Based Access Log Publisher:

dsconfig create-log-publisher
     --publisher-name {name}
     --type {type}
     --set enabled:{propertyValue}
     --set log-file:{propertyValue}
     [--set {propertyName}:{propertyValue}] ...

To delete an existing Log Publisher:

dsconfig delete-log-publisher
     --publisher-name {name}