Best practices - Creating a log

Creating a log allows you to log particular activities that are performed on Web Gateway.

For example, you want to log all requests that were sent from a particular client and were either invalid or blocked.

The logging is performed by a logging rule. This rule applies when a request of the kind that you want to log is received on Web Gateway. It does the following:

• Record information about the request in a log file entry (also known as log line)

  This entry can include the time when a request was sent, the name of the user who sent it, and other information.

• Write the entry into a log file

  Log files are stored in a log. To avoid excessive memory consumption, log files can be rotated and deleted after some time.

Like any other rule on Web Gateway, the logging rule must be contained in a rule set, which is termed a log rule set.

So creating a log that logs what you want to record includes the following activities:

• Creating a log rule set

• Creating a logging rule

  To create the logging rule you need to configure:

  • The rule criteria
  • An event that builds log file entries
  • An event that writes log file entries into a log file

When the write event is configured, the log that stores the log files is also specified.