Archive Log Files

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Archive Log Files

To archive log files from your operating system command line, use:

$ CONSOLE ARCHIVE

The system name ALL is reserved for Console Manager. If you use ALL as the system name, all files on all systems you have access to in the configuration database are archived.

The following table shows the switches available to the archive command.

Switch	What It Does
/NOCONFIRM	Assumes a yes response to the confirmation question in the archive command
/CONFIRM	Prompts the user for confirmation (default)
/HOURS=n	Archives the oldest n hours of data from the beginning of the log data
/KEEP=n	Archives all data except the most recent n hours of data
/BEFORE=time	Archives all data up to time specified
/DIRECTORY=directory	Archives data to specified archive directory. You can only archive files to a local directory on the Console Manager host system. That is, you cannot include a system name in the directory specification.
/DELETE	Deletes the archived data

If the file space used in the logging directory exceeds the critical threshold set in the configuration database, Console Manager automatically archives data on all serviced systems which are logging data to the directory that is short of space.

You cannot start an archive if another archive operation is already in progress. If you attempt to archive when another archive operation is already in progress, the following message is displayed:

CA Console Manager is already archiving a system.
Archive not performed

Archiving the Console Manager Event Log Files

To archive the log files used to log Console Manager events, you must first shut down Console Manager. Then, use the archive command with the keyword CONSOLEMANAGER as its system argument:

Enter:

$ CONSOLE ARCHIVE CONSOLEMANAGER

Archiving the Oldest Data

To archive the oldest data, use the -h or /HOURS switch (depending on your operating system) to the archive command. This stores the files in the same format as the live log files in either the default archive directory, or a directory of your choice.

For example, to archive the oldest 24 hours of data for the system, SALT:

Enter:

$ CONSOLE ARCHIVE SALT/HOURS=24

Archiving All But The Most Recent Data

To archive all but the most recent 12 hours of data on PEPPER:

Enter:

$ CONSOLE ARCHIVE/NOCONFIRM ALL