Chapter 22  Logs

Table of Contents

22.1  Log settings
22.2  Logs Context Menu
22.3  Alert Log
22.4  Config Log
22.5  Connection Log
22.6  Debug Log
22.7  Dial Log
22.8  Error Log
22.9  Filter Log
22.10  Http log
22.11  Security Log
22.12  Sslvpn Log
22.13  Warning Log
22.14  Web Log

Logs are files where history of certain events performed through or detected by WinRoute are recorded and kept. Each log is displayed in a window in the Logs section.

Each event is represented by one record line. Each line starts with a time mark in brackets (date and time when the event took place, in seconds). This mark is followed by an information, depending on the log type. If the record includes a URL, it is displayed as a hypertext link. Follow the link to open the page in your default browser.

Optionally, records of each log may be recorded in files on the local disk[7] and/or on the Syslog server.

Locally, the logs are saved in the files under the logs subdirectory where WinRoute is installed. The file names have this pattern:

file_name.log

(e.g. debug.log). Each log includes an  .idx file, i.e. an indexing file allowing faster access to the log when displayed in Administration Console.

Individual logs can be rotated — after a certain time period or when a threshold of the file size is reached, log files are stored and new events are logged to a new (empty) file.

Administration Console allows to save a selected log (or its part) in a file as plaintext or in HTML. The log saved can be analysed by various tools, published on web servers, etc.



[7] Local disk is a disk of the computer where WinRoute is installed, not a computer where Administration Console is running!