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Chaithy's avatar
Chaithy
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Oct 19, 2017

How to view logs in var/log

When i open the file in notepad to internal editor it shows in some encoded format. im not sure how to proceed further. i need to look into the logs.(Took winscp not in CLI)  
application delivery
BIG-IP
LTM
security
RaghavendraSY's avatar
RaghavendraSY
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Oct 19, 2017

You can download LTM file through WinSCP and can view in notepad/Wordpad if a file is more than 1 MB etc.. you will not be able to open it.

 

A better way to verify log is CLI or move logs to log server eg: Splunk etc..