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 samlog_viewer(1)                                           samlog_viewer(1)




 NAME    [Toc]    [Back]
      samlog_viewer - a tool for viewing and saving the SAM logfile

 SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]
      /usr/sam/bin/samlog_viewer [-s mmddhhmm[[cc]yy]] [-e mmddhhmm[[cc]yy]]
           [-l SDVC] [-u user] [-o ofile] [-t] [-n] [file]

 DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]
      The samlog_viewer command enables the viewing of part or all of the
      SAM logfile (or another file containing data in the same format) at
      varying levels of detail.  This tool is run by SAM whenever the View
      SAM Log option is chosen.  It can also be run independently of SAM, in
      either interactive or noninteractive mode.

      The samlog_viewer command executes in either interactive or
      noninteractive mode, depending on the options given.  In
      noninteractive mode, samlog_viewer filters the source file and writes
      the resulting data either to stdout or to a destination file.  In
      interactive mode, samlog_viewer displays a graphical user interface
      enabling you to try different combinations of filtering, save one or
      more versions of the source file to other files, scroll back and forth
      among the logfile entries, etc.

      Under no circumstances is samlog_viewer destructive to the contents of
      the SAM logfile (or whatever source file is specified by file).  The
      contents of the source file are filtered and displayed (or output)
      according to the settings of the available filters.  Multiple
      instances of samlog_viewer can be run simultaneously without harmful
      effects.

    Filters    [Toc]    [Back]
      samlog_viewer supports three types of filters: level of detail,
      date/time, and user filters.  These filters can be used in combination
      to provide highly selective logfile viewing.

      The level of detail filters control how much detail is displayed.  The
      SAM logfile may contain entries of many different types.  The entry
      types currently supported are: summary, detail, verbose, error, and
      note.  The level of detail filters display some or all of these entry
      types, depending on which filter is chosen.  The level of detail
      filters are:

           Summary             Displays only the higher level messages.
                               These include summary, error, and note
                               (warnings, other entries worthy of special
                               attention) entry types.

           Detail              Includes Summary level of detail, and adds
                               detail log entries.  If no level of detail is
                               specified, this is the default.




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           Verbose             Includes Detail level of detail, and adds
                               verbose log entries.

           Commands Only       Displays only the literal commands that were
                               executed.  These commands may include HP-UX
                               commands as well as SAM commands and scripts.

      The date/time filters are used to ask for entries written since a
      specific date/time, before a specific date/time, or both.

      The user filters are for viewing only those entries written by a
      particular user.  If invoked with the -u option, its argument is used
      as the user whose entries should be shown.  If -u is not specified,
      then the value of the environment variable SAM_RESTRICTED_USER is used
      as the name of the user.  If neither -u or SAM_RESTRICTED_USER is
      present, then no user filtering is done and entries from all users are
      shown.  If both -u and SAM_RESTRICTED_USER are in effect, the -u
      option overrides the setting of the environment variable.

      If user filtering is selected, either by the SAM_RESTRICTED_USER
      environment variable or by the -u option, samlog_viewer displays only
      entries made by that user and disallows any changes to the user
      filtering.  This is useful for allowing nonprivileged users to run
      samlog_viewer and see only those entries that pertain to them.
      Otherwise, samlog_viewer allows the user filtering to be changed, or
      completely disabled, from its interactive filtering screen.

    Options    [Toc]    [Back]
      The following options enable you to set up filtering and other
      attributes.  If samlog_viewer runs interactively, these attributes may
      also be set and modified in the various supported menus and displays.
      The available options are:

           -s mmddhhmm[[cc]yy]      The -s option sets the start date/time
                                    filter to the date/time given by its
                                    argument.  The date/time is specified in
                                    the same way as it is for the date
                                    command (see date(1)):

                                    mm     Month specified as a two digit
                                           number (e.g., 08).

                                    dd     Day specified as a two digit
                                           number.

                                    hh     Hour specified as a two digit
                                           number (24-hour clock form).

                                    mm     Minute specified as a two digit
                                           number.




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                                    cc     Century minus one.  cc is
                                           optional when specifying the
                                           year.

                                    yy     The last two digits of the
                                           desired year.  If this is not
                                           specified, the current year is
                                           used.

                                           Note: To specify a year in two
                                           digits, the valid ranges are 70-
                                           99 (20th century) and 00-37 (21st
                                           century).

                                           To specify a year in four digits,
                                           the valid range is 1970-2037.

                                    If no start time is given, the beginning
                                    of the log is used as the start time.

           -e mmddhhmm[[cc]yy]      The -e option sets the end date/time
                                    filter to the date/time given by its
                                    argument.  The date and time is
                                    specified as described above for the -s
                                    option.  If no end time is given, then
                                    an end date/time of infinity (no end
                                    time) is used.

           -l SDVC                  The -l option sets the desired level of
                                    detail.  One of the letters SDVC must be
                                    specified as the required argument.  The
                                    level of detail is set as follows:

                                    S = Summary
                                    D = Detail
                                    V = Verbose
                                    C = Commands Only

                                    If the -l option is not specified, the
                                    Detail level of detail is used by
                                    default.

           -u user                  The -u option sets the user filter to
                                    the user name or user ID specified by
                                    user.  Only entries logged by this user
                                    are displayed.  If the -u option is
                                    omitted, entries logged by all users are
                                    displayed by default.

           -o ofile                 The -o option causes the filtered output
                                    to be written to the output file ofile.



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                                    The -o option implies the -n option
                                    described below.  If ofile is -, the
                                    output is written to stdout.  If -o is
                                    omitted, the output is written to either
                                    stdout (if -n is specified) or to the
                                    interactive samlog_viewer display (if -n
                                    is omitted).

           -t                       The -t option enables automatic
                                    timestamping.  If specified, each log
                                    entry is tagged with the time of day at
                                    which it was written.  Timestamping is
                                    disabled by default.

           -n                       The -n option forces noninteractive
                                    behavior.  If specified, samlog_viewer
                                    runs noninteractively, using the default
                                    or specified values for all supported
                                    options and source/destination files.

           file                     Specifies the name of the file from
                                    which log data is read.  The format of
                                    the data in the specified file must be
                                    the same as that used for raw SAM
                                    logfile data.  If omitted, the SAM
                                    logfile is read.  If file is -, stdin is
                                    read and samlog_viewer runs
                                    noninteractively.  If given, file must
                                    be the last argument specified on the
                                    command line.

 EXAMPLES    [Toc]    [Back]
      Capture the current contents of the SAM logfile using default
      filtering, and put into the file sam.out:

           samlog_viewer -n >sam.out

      The following example does the same thing:

           samlog_viewer -o sam.out

      View only the commands executed by SAM on behalf of user tom, between
      8am June 5, 1994 and 10pm August 14, 1994, and view the data
      interactively:

           samlog_viewer -s 060508001994 -e 081422001994 -lC -u tom

      Noninteractively read data from stdin, timestamp it, and save the
      result in a file called stdin.out:





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           cat datafile | samlog_viewer -t -o stdin.out -

      Do the same as above, but instead have the data appear on stdout:

           cat datafile | samlog_viewer -t -o - -

      or

           cat datafile | samlog_viewer -tn -













































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 FILES    [Toc]    [Back]
      /var/sam/log/samlog         SAM logfile.

      /var/sam/log/samlog.old     Archived version of samlog, created when
                                  the logfile is automatically trimmed by
                                  SAM when its size becomes too large.  Its
                                  contents are included in the log entries
                                  read by samlog_viewer.

      /tmp/LFV_pid                Temporary files used by samlog_viewer.
      /tmp/LFV_RUNpid


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