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Antonio_Costa_9's avatar
Antonio_Costa_9
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Oct 15, 2014

Extend retention/log rotation period of local DB on ASM VE

Hi,

I tried to follow SOL13367 and changed default 8 days value to 40 using tmsh cli command :

    modify /sys db logrotate.logage value

Reset is not listed as required and config sync were applied.

I cannot see more than 7 days while browsing for ASM reports on F5 ASM VE .

How can i extend ASM reports period keeping them on the local database ?

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5 Replies

  • R_Eastman_13667's avatar
    R_Eastman_13667
    Historic F5 Account
    Oct 16, 2014

    run modify /sys db logrotate.logage 80 save /sys config on the active bigip then sync the active bigip to the standby bigip.

     

  • R_Eastman_13667's avatar
    R_Eastman_13667
    Historic F5 Account
    Oct 16, 2014

    After you run the command, restart syslog-ng and check the /var/run/config/logrotate.conf file. It should be updated.

     

  • Antonio_Costa_9's avatar
    Antonio_Costa_9
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    Oct 16, 2014

    Question : the logrotate period applied regards only to internal DB routines, right ?

     

    There´s other variable for syslog files rotation.

     

  • boneyard's avatar
    boneyard
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    Jul 25, 2015

    no that is exactly the problem, these commands are for logs. the internal DBs are not manageable like this. for ASM i believe it is not an ammount of days that counts but the number of entries. if you got more of them then there will be less days available.