Live Logs

Cisco CDA live logs provide a mechanism for diagnosing, troubleshooting, and auditing the operations of CDA. Live logs gather all the information you need for auditing and troubleshooting the system. Live logs are stored in the db/reports.db file and in the configured Syslog servers. The live logs GUI presents up to the last 10,000 messages generated by CDA.

Message types

The Cisco CDA live logs list the following messages:

 • CDA Control Messages

 • Configuration Changes

 • Mapping Updates

 • Sync Requests

 • CoA Based Traffic

 • Session Data Snapshot Transfer

 • On-demand Queries

 • Keep Alive Requests

 • Domain Status Query

 • DC Status Tracking

Message Content

The Cisco CDA live log messages include the following information:

 • Timestamp

 • Severity

 • Origin Component

 • Message Coe

 • Message Text

Log Levels

The following are the log levels and their status symbols supported by Cisco CDA:

Debug

Info

Notice

Warning

Error

Fatal

Verbosity Levels

The Cisco CDA enables you to configure log verbosity to one of the following values:

 • NONE

 • FATAL

 • ERROR

 • WARN

 • INFO

 • DEBUG

Filtering the Live Logs

You can filter the live logs on any of the log attribute. The log attributes are:

 • Time stamp

 • Severity

 • Origin Component

 • Message

 • Attributes

To filter the live logs, complete the following steps:

 1. Click the filter icon in the Live Logs page.

 2. Enter the filter criteria in the text box.

The filtered data is displayed.

 

Refreshing the Live Logs Page

This page is automatically refreshed after every 10 seconds, by default. You can change the refresh rate to one of the following:

 • 20 seconds

 • 30 seconds

 • 1 minute

 • 2 minutes

 • none

Deleting the Live Logs

You can clear all the live logs by clicking the Clear button.