JSON Access Log Publisher

JSON Access Log Publishers publish JSON-formatted access log messages to the file system.

Parent Component Relations from This Component Properties dsconfig Usage

Parent Component

The JSON Access Log Publisher component inherits from the JSON Formatted Access Log Publisher

Relations from This Component

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

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:
 write-multi-line-messages  compression-mechanism
 log-file
 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-assurance-completed
 log-search-entries
 log-search-references
 log-intermediate-responses
 suppress-internal-operations
 suppress-replication-operations
 correlate-requests-and-results
Filtering Criteria Basic Properties: Advanced Properties:
 connection-criteria  None
 request-criteria
 result-criteria
 search-entry-criteria
 search-reference-criteria
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-connection-details-in-request-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
 include-replication-change-id
 generify-message-strings-when-possible
Other Configuration Basic Properties: Advanced Properties:
 log-field-behavior  max-string-length
 asynchronous
 auto-flush
 buffer-size
 queue-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

write-multi-line-messages

Property Group
Log File Management
Description
Indicates whether the JSON objects should be formatted to span multiple lines with a single element on each line. The multi-line format is potentially more user friendly (if administrators may need to look at the log files), but each message will be larger because of the additional spaces and end-of-line markers.
Default Value
true
Allowed Values
true
false
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 JSON 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 JSON 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 JSON 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 JSON 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 JSON 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 JSON 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 JSON 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 JSON 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-assurance-completed

Property Group
Log Messages To Include
Description
Indicates whether to log information about the result of replication assurance processing.
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

connection-criteria

Property Group
Filtering 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

Property Group
Filtering 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 Access 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

Property Group
Filtering 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 Access 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

search-entry-criteria

Property Group
Filtering Criteria
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 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

Property Group
Filtering Criteria
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 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

include-product-name

Property Group
Log Message Elements To Include
Description
Indicates whether log messages should include the product name for the Directory 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 Directory 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 Directory 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-connection-details-in-request-messages

Property Group
Log Message Elements To Include
Description
Indicates whether to log connection details in request messages, including, where applicable, the client IP address and port, the server IP address and port, and the communication protocol.
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

include-replication-change-id

Property Group
Log Message Elements To Include
Description
Indicates whether to log information about the replication change ID. The replication change ID uniquely identifies an update operation. When enabled on all replicas in the replication topology, it can be used to trace updates from the origin replica to all other replicas.
Default Value
true
Allowed Values
true
false
Multi-Valued
No
Required
No
Admin Action Required
None. Modification requires no further action

generify-message-strings-when-possible

Property Group
Log Message Elements To Include
Description
Indicates whether to use generified version of certain message strings, including diagnostic messages, additional information messages, authentication failure reasons, and disconnect messages. Generified versions of those strings may use placeholders (like %s for a string or %d for an integer) rather than the version of the string with those placeholders replaced with specific values. Using generified versions of message strings may make those messages somewhat less useful since context-specific detail will not be included in the log message, but they may improve privacy and security because any potentially sensitive information will have been redacted.
Note that in some cases, it may not be possible to completely generify message strings. For example, it is not possible to generify messages that originate outside the server codebase (like messages generated by a third-party library or received from an external service).
Default Value
false
Allowed Values
true
false
Multi-Valued
No
Required
No
Admin Action Required
None. Modification requires no further action

log-field-behavior

Property Group
Other Configuration
Description
The behavior to use for determining which fields to log and whether to transform the values of those fields in any way.
Default Value
None
Allowed Values
The DN of any JSON Formatted Access Log Field Behavior.
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 Directory 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

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

asynchronous (Advanced Property)

Property Group
Other Configuration
Description
Indicates whether the JSON 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

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

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 JSON Access Log Publisher must be restarted if this property is changed and the asynchronous property is set to true.

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 JSON 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}