About the Logs

When you configure persistent protocol tracing, you affect the following types of logs.

Note:

Enabling logs can have an impact on Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller performance.

Process Logs

Events are logged to a process log flow from tasks and are specific to a single process running on the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller. By default they are placed into individual files associated with each process with the following name format:

log.<taskname>

By setting the new log-filter parameter, you can have the logs sent to a remote log server (if configured). If you set log-filter to logs or all, the logs are sent to the log server. Otherwise, the logs are still captured at the level the process-log-level parameter is set to, but the results are stored on the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller’s local storage.

Communication Logs

These are the communication logs between processes and system management. The logs are usually named <name>.log, with <name> being the process name. For example, sipd.log.

This class of log is configured by the new internal-trace parameter.

Protocol Trace Logs

The only protocol trace logs included at this time are sipmsg.log for SIP. The H.323 system tracing is not included. All of the logs enabled with the call–trace parameter are sent to remote log servers, if you also set the log-filter parameter to logs or all.