Viewing the Most Recent Entries in Logs (tail Command)

AsyncOS supports a tail command, which shows the latest entries of configured logs on the appliance. Issue the tail command and select the number of a currently configured log to view it. Press Ctrl-C to exit from the tail command.

Example

In the following example, the tail command is used to view the system log. The tail command also accepts the name of a log to view as a parameter, for example, tail system_logs

Welcome to the M600 Messaging Gateway(tm) Appliance
example.srv> tail
Currently configured logs:
1. "cli_logs" Type: "CLI Audit Logs" Retrieval: FTP Poll
2. "euq_logs" Type: " Spam Quarantine Logs" Retrieval: FTP Poll
3. "euqgui_logs" Type: "Spam Quarantine GUI Logs" Retrieval: FTP Poll
4. "gui_logs" Type: "HTTP Logs" Retrieval: FTP Poll
5. "mail_logs" Type: "Text Mail Logs" Retrieval: FTP Poll
6. "reportd_logs" Type: "Reporting Logs" Retrieval: FTP Poll
7. "reportqueryd_logs" Type: "Reporting Query Logs" Retrieval: FTP Poll
8. "slbld_logs" Type: "Safe/Block Lists Logs" Retrieval: FTP Poll
9. "smad_logs" Type: "SMA Logs" Retrieval: FTP Poll
10. "system_logs" Type: "System Logs" Retrieval: FTP Poll
11. "trackerd_logs" Type: "Tracking Logs" Retrieval: FTP Poll
Enter the number of the log you wish to tail.
[]> 10
Press Ctrl-C to stop.
Thu Sep 27 00:18:56 2007 Info: Begin Logfile
Thu Sep 27 00:18:56 2007 Info: Version: 6.0.0-422 SN: 001143583D73-FT9GP61
Thu Sep 27 00:18:56 2007 Info: Time offset from UTC: 0 seconds
Thu Sep 27 00:18:47 2007 Info: System is coming up.
Thu Sep 27 00:23:05 2007 Warning: DNS query network error '[Errno 64] Host is down' to '172.16.0.3' looking up 'downloads.cisco.com'
Fri Sep 28 22:20:08 2007 Info: PID 688: User admin commit changes:
Fri Sep 28 23:06:15 2007 Info: PID 688: User admin commit changes:
^Cexample.srv>

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