Feature: Audit Logs/Export Log Files

Requirement:

-          Provide UI/API to extract or download “logfiles” from system VMs and Management Server(s)

-          Users must be able to specify which system VM/Management Server(s) to get the logs from

-          Users must be able to specify which logs they want

-          Users must be able to specify date range

Open Question(s):

-          What are the set of logs/files?

-          how does CS do logfile management/rotation/archival

Anyone troubleshooting the CloudStack environment might want to look at any or all of the following logs - this feature makes it easy to retrieve those logs

Management Server

 /var/log/cloud/management

                management server logs, gzipped daily

                catalina - java process related

                api- server - api calls

Usage server

     /var/log/cloud/usage/usage.log

SSVM & console proxy

    /usr/local/systemvm/cloud/cloud.log

    /var/log/cloud.log

    /var/log/cloud/cloud.out

 Router VM

      /var/log* (DNS mask log , DNS resolution process)

XenServer

   /var/log/XMLog

   /var/log/Xensource.log

   /var/log/message

KVM

    /var/log/cloud/agent/agent.log

    /var/log/messages

    /var/log/libvirt/libvirt.log