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Admin Alert Access Log Publisher

The Admin Alert Access Log Publisher will generate administrative alerts for any operations which match the criteria for this access logger.

Parent Component
Relations To this Component
Properties
dsconfig Usage

Parent Component

The Admin Alert 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 Admin Alert Access Log Publishers:

Properties

The properties supported by this managed object are as follows:


Basic Properties: Advanced Properties:
↓ description ↓ log-connects
↓ enabled ↓ log-disconnects
↓ suppress-internal-operations ↓ log-client-certificates
↓ suppress-replication-operations ↓ log-requests
↓ log-security-negotiation ↓ log-results
↓ log-intermediate-responses ↓ log-search-entries
↓ connection-criteria ↓ log-search-references
↓ request-criteria ↓ search-entry-criteria
↓ result-criteria ↓ search-reference-criteria
↓ include-request-details-in-search-entry-messages ↓ correlate-requests-and-results
↓ include-request-details-in-search-reference-messages ↓ auto-flush
↓ include-request-details-in-intermediate-response-messages ↓ asynchronous
↓ include-extended-search-request-details ↓ queue-size
↓ include-add-attribute-names ↓ include-request-details-in-result-messages
↓ include-modify-attribute-names ↓ include-thread-id
↓ include-search-entry-attribute-names ↓ max-string-length
↓ include-product-name
↓ include-instance-name
↓ include-startup-id
↓ include-requester-ip-address
↓ include-requester-dn
↓ include-request-controls
↓ include-response-controls

Basic Properties

description

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

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

suppress-internal-operations

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

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

log-security-negotiation

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-intermediate-responses

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

connection-criteria

Description
Specifies a set of connection criteria that must match the associated client connection in order for a connect, disconnect, request, or result message to be logged.
Default Value
None
Allowed Values
The DN of any Connection Criteria.
Multi-Valued
No
Required
No
Admin Action Required
None. Modification requires no further action

request-criteria

Description
Specifies a set of request criteria that must match the associated operation request in order for a request or result to be logged by this Log Publisher.
Default Value
None
Allowed Values
The DN of any Request Criteria.
Multi-Valued
No
Required
No
Admin Action Required
None. Modification requires no further action

result-criteria

Description
Specifies a set of result criteria that must match the associated operation result in order for that result to be logged by this Log Publisher.
Default Value
None
Allowed Values
The DN of any Result Criteria.
Multi-Valued
No
Required
No
Admin Action Required
None. Modification requires no further action

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

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

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

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-extended-search-request-details

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

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

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

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-product-name

Description
Indicates whether log messages should include the product name for the Metrics Engine.
Default Value
false
Allowed Values
true
false
Multi-Valued
No
Required
No
Admin Action Required
None. Modification requires no further action

include-instance-name

Description
Indicates whether log messages should include the instance name for the Metrics Engine.
Default Value
false
Allowed Values
true
false
Multi-Valued
No
Required
No
Admin Action Required
None. Modification requires no further action

include-startup-id

Description
Indicates whether log messages should include the startup ID for the Metrics Engine, 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-ip-address

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-requester-dn

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-request-controls

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

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


Advanced Properties

log-connects (Advanced Property)

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 (Advanced Property)

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-client-certificates (Advanced Property)

Description
Indicates whether to log information about any client certificates presented 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-requests (Advanced Property)

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 (Advanced Property)

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 (Advanced Property)

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 (Advanced Property)

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

search-entry-criteria (Advanced Property)

Description
Specifies a set of search entry criteria that must match the associated search result entry in order for that it to be logged by this Admin Alert Access Log Publisher.
Default Value
None
Allowed Values
The DN of any Search Entry Criteria.
Multi-Valued
No
Required
No
Admin Action Required
None. Modification requires no further action

search-reference-criteria (Advanced Property)

Description
Specifies a set of search reference criteria that must match the associated search result reference in order for that it to be logged by this Admin Alert Access Log Publisher.
Default Value
None
Allowed Values
The DN of any Search Reference Criteria.
Multi-Valued
No
Required
No
Admin Action Required
None. Modification requires no further action

correlate-requests-and-results (Advanced Property)

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
false
Allowed Values
true
false
Multi-Valued
No
Required
No
Admin Action Required
None. Modification requires no further action

auto-flush (Advanced Property)

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

asynchronous (Advanced Property)

Description
Indicates whether the Admin Alert 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

queue-size (Advanced Property)

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
1000
Allowed Values
An integer value. Lower limit is 1000. Upper limit is 100000 .
Multi-Valued
No
Required
No
Admin Action Required
The Admin Alert Access Log Publisher must be restarted if this property is changed and the asynchronous property is set to true.

include-request-details-in-result-messages (Advanced Property)

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-thread-id (Advanced Property)

Description
Indicates whether log messages should include the thread ID for the Metrics Engine 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

max-string-length (Advanced Property)

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


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 Admin Alert Access Log Publisher:

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

To delete an existing Log Publisher:

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