Log output location
To specify where log files should be stored, use the Sametime® Administration Tool, which also lets you specify the format for the log and to automatically remove old information from the log.
Open the Sametime Administration Tool, select , and click the General tab .The Database or text file settings allow you to specify the format for the log and to automatically remove old information from the log.
Enable logging to a Domino® database (STLog.nsf)
Select Enable logging to a Domino database to record Sametime Meeting Services and Community Services data in the Sametime log database (stlog.nsf). During setup of the Sametime server, the Sametime Log database is automatically created, and the administrator specified during setup is assigned Manager access in the database Access Control List (ACL). The server is also assigned Manager access to the database so that it can write information to the log. The default access for all other users is Reader.
When this option is selected, a Sametime administrator can view all of the information in the Sametime log by opening the Sametime Administration Tool and selecting Logging. The links available from the Logging menu display different views of the Sametime log database.
When this option is selected, you can use the Remove history after (days) setting to prevent the Sametime log from growing too large.
If the Enable logging to a Domino database option is not selected, Sametime activity is not recorded in the Sametime database, and the links beneath the logging option in the Sametime Administration Tool do not appear.
If you select this option, you cannot select the Enable logging to a text file option; it is not possible to record Sametime activity in both database and text file format.
After selecting this option, click Update and restart the server for the setting to take effect.
Remove history after (days)
Select this setting to automatically remove old information from the Sametime log database (stlog.nsf). In the field provided, specify the age (in days) of information that is automatically removed from the database. The default setting is 60 days. However, in a Sametime environment that has a high number of users and a high activity rate, the stlog.nsf file size may exceed 500 MG in just a few days. To keep the stlog.nsf file size below 500MG, set the value to 7 days instead of using the default value.
This setting only applies to the Sametime log database; it does not remove Sametime log information stored in text files. You must manually delete old text files.
After selecting this option, click Update and restart the server for the setting to take effect.
Log file output location
Select this setting to record Sametime log information
in a text file. When this option is selected, a new Sametime log text file is
created every day. By default, the name of each text file contains
the date on which the file was created (for example, log_23_Mar_2009.txt).
After you select this option, specify a path and file name for the
log file in the Path to log text file field;
for example, in Microsoft® Windows®: d:\notesdata\chatlogs\txtfiles\log.txt
To view the file, open it in your preferred text editor. You cannot view the text file log from the Sametime Administration Tool.
If you log Sametime activity to a text file:
- Sametime activity is not recorded in the Sametime log database, and the links beneath the logging option in the Sametime Administration Tool do not appear. You cannot access the Domino log when you log to a text file.
- You must manually delete the text files from the server hard drive periodically to conserve hard disk space.
If you select this option, you cannot simultaneously select the Enable logging to a Domino database option. It is not possible to record Sametime activity in both database and text file format.
After selecting this option, click Update and restart the server for the setting to take effect.