Logging Facilities

The logging of events, email messages, and various debug information provides a means through which you can troubleshoot a problem with your SIMS components. TABLE 8-1 provides an overview of the SIMS logging facilities available via the Admin Console.



TABLE  8-1   Overview of Logging Facilities
Logging Facility
Description
For More Information, Refer To

Log Manager  

Logs transactional event messages generated by the SIMS administration server components. You can search the log for events that occurred up to 7 days ago.  

"Event Log Manager" on page 249  

IMTA log  

If configured, an IMTA channel logs in each email as it enters and is removed from the channel queue.  

"Message Logging" on page 130 and "Tracking Messages" on page 259  

Directory services log  

If configured, logs various information such as protocol trace information for function calls and debug information about packets.  

"Configuring Logging" on page 213 and "Directory Service Logging" on page 262  

Message Store/

Message Access  

Logs all imaccessd errors and events.  

Search for SUNWMail.ims in /var/log/syslog  




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