Admin: Log

Overview

The Log tab is used to access informational, warning and error messages generated during RPI installation, upgrade or validation.

Note that a warning triangle is shown at the Log tab when one or more unread log messages are present therein.

The Log tab consists of Log and Selected Message sections.

Log Section

The Log section contains a toolbar and log messages list.

Log Toolbar

The toolbar exposes the following buttons:

• Export: this button allows you export the currently displayed log messages without full message details. Clicking the button displays the “Export Log to File” Windows file system dialog. The folder displayed defaults to the folder in which the Server Deployment Workbench executable is running. The default export file name is “DeploymentLog_[year][month][day]-[time]”, and default type is Text file.
  You can click Save to create the export file; a confirmatory dialog is displayed post-save. The export file contains log file messages as per the contents of the Log grid. Any filters and/or sorting applied to the grid are also observed within the export file.
  For each log message, the following tab-separated information is displayed:

  • Time

  • Type

  • Message: full message details, where they exist, are not exported.

  • You can also click Cancel to remove the Windows file system dialog from display.

• Export (with details): this button also allows you to save the displayed log messages to a file. However, full details are included for each message (when they exist).

• Clear: invocation of this option is protected by an “Are You Sure?” dialog and clears all log messages from the grid.

• Filter: these toggle buttons allow you to show or hide log messages of specific types:

  • Information

  • Warning

  • Error

Log Messages List

Log messages that match the current filter criteria are displayed in reverse chronological order. 

The following columns are shown:

• [Type]: icon; one of:

  • Information

  • Warning

  • Error

• Time

• Task: the activity that was executing when the log message was created.

• Message

You can also highlight a single log message at a time in the grid.

Selected Message Section

This section is initially blank. When a log message is selected, its details are displayed here.

Where additional message details exist, they are also displayed. Selected Message is read-only; you can, if desired, highlight and copy the log message details shown therein.

Log Files

Log files are written to C:\ProgramData\Redpoint\DeploymentLogs.  One log file per day for each of Core and Node is written.

Core logs are written at:

• Core install

• Core upgrade

 The core log filename format is 'Core yyyymmdd.txt'

 Node logs are written at:

• Node install

• Node upgrade

• Client install

 The node log filename format is 'Node yyyymmdd.txt'