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rootvikm_79112
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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 fou...
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amolari
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Oct 20, 2015

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)