The Syslog Text Access Log Publisher can be used to write access log messages to a syslog server using the server's default text-based access log format in which key-value pairs are separated by spaces.
The Syslog Text Access Log Publisher component inherits from the Writer Based Access Log Publisher
The following components have a direct aggregation relation from Syslog Text Access Log Publishers:
The properties supported by this managed object are as follows:
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Property Group | Syslog Configuration |
| Description | The syslog server to which messages should be sent. Multiple servers can be configured for the sake of redundancy. If multiple servers are configured, then they must all be configured to communicate over TCP (with or without TLS encryption). When sending a syslog message, servers will be tried in the order in which they are listed. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | The DN of any Syslog External Server. |
| Multi-Valued | Yes |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Property Group | Syslog Configuration |
| Description | The syslog facility to use for the messages that are logged by this Syslog Text Access Log Publisher. |
| Default Value | system-daemons |
| Allowed Values | user-level-messages - A facility that is commonly used for messages logged by user applications running on the system. This facility has an integer value of 1. system-daemons - A facility that is commonly used for messages logged by daemon processes running on the system. This facility has an integer value of 3. security-and-authorization - A facility that is commonly used for messages related to security and authorization-related processing. This facility has an integer value of 4. security-and-authorization-alternative - An alternative facility for messages related to security and authorization-related processing. This facility has an integer value of 10. log-audit - A facility for messages related to log audit processing. This facility has an integer value of 13. log-alert - A facility for messages related to log alert processing. This facility has an integer value of 14. local-use-0 - A facility that does not have any predefined purpose and may be used for any arbitrary purpose. This facility has an integer value of 16. local-use-1 - A facility that does not have any predefined purpose and may be used for any arbitrary purpose. This facility has an integer value of 17. local-use-2 - A facility that does not have any predefined purpose and may be used for any arbitrary purpose. This facility has an integer value of 18. local-use-3 - A facility that does not have any predefined purpose and may be used for any arbitrary purpose. This facility has an integer value of 19. local-use-4 - A facility that does not have any predefined purpose and may be used for any arbitrary purpose. This facility has an integer value of 20. local-use-5 - A facility that does not have any predefined purpose and may be used for any arbitrary purpose. This facility has an integer value of 21. local-use-6 - A facility that does not have any predefined purpose and may be used for any arbitrary purpose. This facility has an integer value of 22. local-use-7 - A facility that does not have any predefined purpose and may be used for any arbitrary purpose. This facility has an integer value of 23. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Property Group | Syslog Configuration |
| Description | The syslog severity to use for the messages that are logged by this Syslog Text Access Log Publisher. |
| Default Value | informational |
| Allowed Values | emergency - A severity that is commonly used for messages indicating that the system is unusable. This severity has an integer value of 0. alert - A severity that is commonly used for messages that require immediate administrative action. This severity has an integer value of 1. critical - A severity that is commonly used for messages that represent critical error conditions. This severity has an integer value of 2. error - A severity that is commonly used for messages that represent non-critical error conditions. This severity has an integer value of 3. warning - A severity that is commonly used for messages that represent warning conditions. This severity has an integer value of 4. notice - A severity that is commonly used for messages that represent normal but significant conditions. This severity has an integer value of 5. informational - A severity that is commonly used for informational messages. This severity has an integer value of 6. debug - A severity that is commonly used for debug messages. This severity has an integer value of 7. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Property Group | Syslog Configuration |
| Description | The local host name that will be included in syslog messages that are logged by this Syslog Text Access Log Publisher. If this is specified, then the value must be between 1 and 255 characters in length, and it must contain only printable ASCII characters between 0x21 (the '!' character) and 0x7E (the '~') character, inclusive. It should represent a qualified or unqualified hostname, an IPv4 address, or an IPv6 address. If this is not specified, then the server will attempt to automatically determine the hostname for the local system. If no hostname should be included in syslog messages, then a value of "-" should be used. |
| Default Value | The server will attempt to automatically determine the hostname for the local system. |
| Allowed Values | A string |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
syslog-message-application-name
| Property Group | Syslog Configuration |
| Description | The application name that will be included in syslog messages that are logged by this Syslog Text Access Log Publisher. If this is specified, then the value must be between 1 and 48 characters in length, and it must contain only printable ASCII characters between 0x21 (the '!' character) and 0x7E (the '~') character, inclusive. If this is not specified, then the server will use a default value of "PingDirectory". If no application name should be included in syslog messages, then a value of "-" should be used. |
| Default Value | The server will use a default value of "PingDirectory". |
| Allowed Values | A string |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Property Group | Log Messages To Include |
| Description | Indicates whether to log information about connections established to the server. |
| Default Value | true |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| 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 | true |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| 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 | true |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Property Group | Log Message Elements To Include |
| Description | Indicates whether log messages should include the product name for the Directory Server. |
| Default Value | true |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Property Group | Log Message Elements To Include |
| Description | Indicates whether log messages should include the instance name for the Directory Server. |
| Default Value | true |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| 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 | true |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| 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 | true |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| 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 | true |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Text Access Log Field Behavior. |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| 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 |
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 | false |
| 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 | 500 |
| 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 | 100000 |
| Allowed Values | An integer value. Lower limit is 1000. Upper limit is 100000 . |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | The Syslog Text Access Log Publisher must be restarted if this property is changed and the asynchronous property is set to true. |
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 Syslog Text Access Log Publisher:
dsconfig create-log-publisher
--publisher-name {name}
--type {type}
--set enabled:{propertyValue}
--set syslog-external-server:{propertyValue}
[--set {propertyName}:{propertyValue}] ...
To delete an existing Log Publisher:
dsconfig delete-log-publisher
--publisher-name {name}