How to enable Verbose logging without consuming your Disk Space on RSA Authentication Manager 8.x
Originally Published: 2016-06-30
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Applies To
RSA Product Set: SecurID
RSA Product/Service Type: RSA Authentication Manager
RSA Version/Condition: 8.x
Issue
Resolution
2. Click Logging.
3. Change the Trace Log to Verbose.
4. If you have more than one replica and chose the option of 'Apply the above settings to the replica instance(s) upon save', then please apply the steps below on all servers
5. Login to the server using ssh, as rsaadmin
6. Switch to root user
sudo su - root7. Edit the crontab file
crontab -e8. Add the following line in the crontab file, then save and exit, note that this file uses vi editing options.
0 0 * * 0 rm /opt/rsa/am/server/logs/imsTrace*This will remove the imsTrace files on a weekly basis and you edit that time by editing the above command, below are some tips that can be useful
| String | Meaning |
|---|---|
| @reboot | Run once, at startup |
| @yearly | Run once a year, "0 0 1 1 *" |
| @annually | (same as @yearly) |
| @monthly | Run once a month, "0 0 1 * *" |
| @weekly | Run once a week, "0 0 * * 0" |
| @daily | Run once a day, "0 0 * * *" |
| @midnight | (same as @daily) |
| @hourly | Run once an hour, "0 * * * *" |
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