Environment
Novell Identity Manager 3.0
Novell Identity Manager 3.5
Novell Identity Manager - Remote Loader
Situation
Using Identity Manager's tracing options on the IDM engine or
Remote Loader allows you to write traces directly to a file without
using the dstrace module on the engine side or copying from a
window on the Remote Loader side. There is an option to set
the maximum trace file size so that the trace does not easily
consume all available disk space. When doing this and setting
the maximum size to ten megabytes the file never reaches that size
but there are several small files in that location.
Resolution
The engine and Remote Loader both respect the maximum trace size
setting and use functionality similar to logrotate to rotate older
files out. In doing so there is no single file which holds
the maximum trace size in data but instead ten smaller files hold
one tenth of that size. The older files are renamed with a
higher number until they are eventually removed. This allows
for data to be continuously up to date and, when the maximum size
is reached, all data are not lost to start writing the file over
again.
The maximum file size limit for the individual files being used to store this tracing information is dependent on the filesystem. See filesystem specifications for details.
The maximum file size limit for the individual files being used to store this tracing information is dependent on the filesystem. See filesystem specifications for details.