1 Title: Windows agent: renew logging
10 The logging functionality of the Windows agent was rewritten. The key
11 features and changes are as follows:
13 * The logs are built incrementally over time and rotated up to 5
14 copies once the log size of 8 MB is reached.
15 * The formatting of the log entries has been changed to include a
16 numeric log level (0...7) and an absolute timestamp with the
17 accuracy of milliseconds (instead of a relative time since the
19 * The naming of agent logfiles has been changed: the agent logs to
20 CHECK_MK_AGENT_INSTALL_DIR\log\agent.log which will then be rotated
21 as agent.log.N, N={1...5}
22 * Crash info as subsection [[[Check_MK Agent]]] within the section
23 <<<logwatch>>> was removed. Now that the logs are persistent,
24 information about past crashes can be obtained in the logs.
25 * Debug log entries are enabled by setting crash_debug = yes in the
26 global section of check_mk.ini.
27 * The names of the various logfiles no longer appear in the output of
28 section Check_MK when crash_debug = yes.