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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 Agentless Monitor for Linux 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 IBM Tivoli Agentless Monitoring for Linux Operating Systems, the product code is r4.
- 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