Recording Events (Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 Technical Overview)

Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 Technical Overview

Recording Events

Log records are created using the com.sun.identity.log.LogRecord class, and then logged by authenticated and authorized entities using the com.sun.identity.log.Logger class. Log records can be logged by:

Other components of the OpenSSO Enterprise server.
Utilities installed on the OpenSSO Enterprise server system.
Other OpenSSO Enterprise servers using a second instance of OpenSSO Enterprise acting as the log server.
Remote client applications (for example, policy agents) using the OpenSSO Enterprise Logging Service.

The following table summarizes the default items logged in the LogRecord.

Table 15–1 Events Recorded in LogRecord


Event	Description
Time	The date (`YYYY-MM-DD`) and time (`HH:MM:SS`) at which the log message was recorded. This field is not configurable.
Data	Variable data pertaining to the log records's `MESSAGE ID`. This field is not configurable.
ModuleName	Name of the OpenSSO Enterprise service or application being logged. Additional information on the value of this field can be found in “Adding Log Data” on page 88.
Domain	OpenSSO Enterprise domain to which the user (whom the log record is regarding) belongs. This information is taken from the session token passed in the `LogRecord(level,msg,token)` call.
LogLevel	The Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) version 1.4 log level of the log record.
LoginID	The identifier of the user (taken from the session token) as the subject of the log record.
IPAddress	IP address from which the operation was performed.
LoggedBy	User who writes the log record. The information is taken from the session token passed during `logger.log(logRecord, ssoToken)`.
HostName	Host name associated with the IP address above. This is present if the Log Record Resolve Host Name attribute is enabled. If not, the IP address is printed.
MESSAGEID	Non-internationalized message identifier for this log record's message.
ContextID	Session identifier associated with a particular login session. The session identifier is for the entity about whom the log record is regarding.