Log settings
Logs are files where information about certain events (e.g. error and warning reports, debugging information, etc.) are recorded. Each item is represented by one row starting with a timestamp (date and time of the event). Events reported are in English only (they are generated by the Kerio MailServer Engine).
When you right-click inside any log window, a context menu will be displayed where you can choose several functions or change the log's parameters (view, logged information).
Figure 1. Context menu
- Copy
- Copies the selected text onto the clipboard. You can use the operating system hotkeys to do this (e.g. Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Insert in Windows).
- Clear log
- Use this option to clear the log.
- Log debug
- Select this option to open the Log debug dialog where you can set parameters for clearing or saving logs.
The File Logging tab
Figure 2. File Logging
Enable logging to file enables logging to a specified file. Use the File name entry to specify a path where logs will be saved.
Rotate regularly select one of the following options:
Every hour log is saved once an hour and a new log file is started.
Every day log is rotated once a 24 hours.
Every week log is rotated once a week.
Every month log is rotated once a month.
Rotate when file exceeds size set maximum log file size (in KBs) in Max log file size.
Keep at most ... log file(s) define how many log files will be stored. The oldest file will be cleared after each rotation.
The External Logging tab
Open the External Logging dialog to set logging to a Syslog server or to a file. The three options can be combined.
Figure 3. Storing logs on Syslog server
Enable Syslog logging use this option to enable logging to a Syslog server
Syslog server DNS name or IP address of the particular Syslog server
Facility this entry helps Kerio MailServer recognize where a log came from (Syslog server can receive logs from various sources)
Severity set how important the log is (Syslog enables filtering of logs with respect to their severity) - Find
- Use this option to find a particular log row. Insert search criteria into the Find entry (words, numerals, characters). Use the Direction parameter to define in which direction the logs will be read through (Up, Down).
Figure 4. Find - Clear log
- Clears the log window (information is also removed from the appropriate file).
- Logged information
- Advanced parameters for the logs can be set using this option (for details see below). Available only in the Debug section.
