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IBM Tivoli Monitoring > Version 6.3 > User's Guides > Log File Agent User's Guide > Troubleshooting > Trace logging IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3
Overview of log file management
Knowing the naming conventions for log files helps you to find the files.
Agent log file naming conventions
Table 1 provides the names, locations, and descriptions of IBM Tivoli Monitoring general RAS1 log files. The log file names for the Log File agent adhere to the following naming convention:
Where:
- Windows systems
- hostname_productcode_instance-name_program_HEXtimestamp-nn.log
- Linux and UNIX systems
- hostname_productcode_instance-name_program_HEXtimestamp-nn.log
- hostname
- Host name of the computer where the monitoring component is running.
- productcode
- Two-character product code. For Tivoli Log File Agent, the product code is lo.
- instance-name
- Instance name of the agent.
- program
- Name of the program being run.
- HEXtimestamp
- Hexadecimal time stamp representing the time at which the program started.
- nn
- Rolling log suffix.
Parent topic:
Trace logging