This topic describes the contents of the audit log.
The administrative audit log contains all administrative actions issued to the SAN File System. It contains a record of every command issued by a SAN File System administrator, from either the administrative command-line interface or the SAN File System console, that changes the state of the metadata server in some way.
Each administrative server has its own audit log. If you display the audit log from either the administrative command-line interface or the SAN File System console, all audit logs on all engines in the cluster are consolidated into a single view.
Log entries contain the following fields:
The following example shows a message from the consolidated view of the audit log that is displayed through the administrative command-line interface:
2003-04-21 18:36:32 INFORMATIONAL HSTAD0083I A mds_engine_0 User Name: jozvold Command Name: MasterServiceAddServer Parameters: SYSTEMCREATIONCLASSNAME=STC_Cluster SYSTEMNAME=testnode CREATIONCLASSNAME=STC_MasterService NAME=MasterService CLUSTERPORT=10001 IP=9.29.25.136 Command Succeeded.
Parent topic: Metadata server logs
Related concepts
Logs and traces
Related tasks
Viewing logs
Related reference
catlog