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Oct 19, 2015

Log file control in Bigip /var/log/ts

I have a system running 11.5.1 with modules LTM, GTM, AFM, APM and ASM provisioned. The issue I am seeing is that the /var/log system is filling up to capacity.

 

While looking at the issue I found that there are large log files in /var/log/ts that are taking up most of the space and from what I can tell, are not being managed by the log rotation process like the logs in /var/log are.

 

So my questions is, what is generating the log found in /var/log/ts and where can I configure them to be rolled like the other log files?

 

A sampling of the log in this directory are:

 

bd_agent.log bd.log checksums.log dcc.log prepare_files.log sendcmd.log ts_configsync.log ts_debug.log psbnagd.log

 

Any help on locating where to configure the management of these files would be great.

 

  • what are those file? sol14020: BIG-IP ASM daemons (11.x)

     

    Do you have up to 24 files per log?

     

    Change the number of archive copies that the system retains

     

    The tmsh log-rotate common-backlogs option specifies the maximum number of log files that the system retains for each log file. By default, the BIG-IP system is configured to retain up to a maximum of 24 archive copies of each log file.

     

    Ref: sol13367: Managing log files on the BIG-IP system (11.x)

     

  • As mentioned in the original post. These files are apparently not being managed by the log rotation service. There are no backup files, just the ones I listed that are 30-45Mb each. I am trying to identify what service on the BigIP is generating some or all of the files, and how I can either turn down the logging level, or add it to the list of log files being rotated.