Asset Discovery Log
The asset discovery scanner also keeps its own log files of its activities, therefore any logs concerning an asset discovery can only be found on the respective scanner. They are located in directory Installation Directory/client (or master)/log/AssetDiscovery/scan . Here you can find a number of different log files, each concerns the execution of a specific script on a specific device, the main log file of a scan is user.log , it contains all the general information about the scan execution.
It is possible to directly access the log file of a specific scan in the Device List tab of the Asset Discovery > Scanners > Your Scanner > Module Configuration node, or the Device List tab of the Device Topology > Your Device > Agent Configuration > Module Configuration > Asset Discovery node.
The log displays the date and time at which any patch action or operation occurred, the name of the patch module, a letter(s) that indicates of which type the explanation following is, such as ERR for error or I for installation, and so on, as well as the description itself. The displayed contents of the log file can be filtered and thus reduced in size to find specific entries or types of entries as follows:
Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
Use Regular Expressions | Check this box if a regular expressions can be used in the following Description boxes. |
Date | In this text box you can enter a date and time value for which the respective log lines are to be displayed. The format is YYYY/MM/DD hh:mm:ss , and you can use wildcard characters. For example, to display everything logged at 12:30 on the 14 November 2006 the date box must be filled in as follows:2006/11/14 12:30.* . |
Description | In this text box you can enter any string value which is to be contained in the description of log entry you are looking form. For example, to display all lines containing "toto" in the description, enter the following in the Description text box: .toto. . |
Type | From this drop down box you can select the type of entry you want to display, possible values are T for Trace, I for Information, ERR for any type of error, D for Details, W for Warning and A for Audit. |
Thread ID | In this field you can enter the unique identifier of a specific thread that you would like to follow. |
To apply the filters defined in the preceding text box click the Sort button to the right. The right window pane will be refreshed with only the requested lines.