Last I recall, the syslog facility of ONTAP didn't work so well (probably 2-3 years ago) or the granularity was insufficient to make it useful.
It seems ONATP is logging a lot more these days, and the messages file is so full of "crap" (i.e., informational messages) that seeing real problems or security issues requires me to write an external perl script, albeit a simple one, to parse the logs.
If anyone is using etc/syslog.conf, would you please comment on how well or not well it works for you? Maybe include yours if you have a particularly interesting or clever filtering scheme?
And, NetApp, can you please fix this? The second line of these related messages doesn't contain a timestamp. Really fools up anything that expects it:
Sun Nov 12 17:56:50 EST [Java Thread]: TimeDaemon: timed: adjusting time: filer thinks time is Sun Nov 12 17:56:50 EST 2000. Time reported by time server time is Sun Nov 12 17:56:50 EST 2000 (skew -0.071 secs).
Thank you.
Until next time...
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