Examples

The first example below initializes flexible logging into the file /usr/sun/webserver61/server1/https-servername/logs/access.

Init fn=flex-init access="/usr/sun/webserver61/server1/https-servername
/logs/access" format.access="%Ses->client.ip% - %Req->vars.auth-user% 
[%SYSDATE%] \"%Req->reqpb.clf-request%\" %Req->srvhdrs.clf-status% 
%Req->srvhdrs.content-length%"

This will record the following items:

• IP or host name, followed by the three characters “ - ”

• User name, followed by the two characters “ [”

• System date, followed by the two characters “] ”

• Full HTTP request in quotes, followed by a single space

• HTTP result status in quotes, followed by a single space

• Content length

  This is the default format, which corresponds to the Common Log Format (CLF).

  It is advisable that the first six elements of any log always be in exactly this format, because a number of log analyzers expect that as output.

  The second example initializes flexible logging into the file /usr/sun/webserver61/server1/https-servername/logs/extended.

Init fn=flex-init extended="/usr/sun/webserver61/server1/https-servername
/logs/extended" format.extended="%Ses->client.ip% - %Req->vars.auth-user%
[%SYSDATE%] \"%Req->reqpb.clf-request%\" %Req->srvhdrs.clf-status%
%Req->srvhdrs.content-length% %Req->headers.referer% \"%Req->
headers.user-agent%\" %Req->reqpb.method% %Req->reqpb.uri% %Req->
reqpb.query% %Req->reqpb.protocol%"

The third example shows how logging can be tuned to prevent request handling threads from making blocking calls when writing to log files, instead delegating these calls to the log flush thread.

Doubling the size of the buffer-size and num-buffers parameters from their defaults and lowering the value of the LogFlushInterval magnus.conf directive to 4 seconds (see Chapter 2, SAFs in the magnus.conf File

Init fn=flex-init buffer-size=16384 num-buffers=2000 
access="/usr/sun/webserver61/server1/https-servername/logs/access" 
format.access="%Ses->client.ip% - %Req->vars.auth-user% 
[%SYSDATE%] \"%Req->reqpb.clf-request%\" %Req->srvhdrs.clf-status% 
%Req->srvhdrs.content-length%"