Genesys Automated Zip Log Files

It has been years Genesys engineers, consultants, and administrators have been alarm by how big the CTI logs can be. This includes the Genesys suites of N-tier servers as well.

It is often that we need to keep debug level logs for troubleshooting when users complain, yet it takes 100 GB of space for 1 month retention. Currently is limited to selected server components

I have been using external gzip, bzip2, or Windows NTFS build in file compression to compress logs in many implementations. Now in recent version of Genesys, it is able to configure automatic zip compression for historical logs, except current log, for GAD and GIS

Steps to have log name db_server.log max size 100 MB, max files 200, and auto zip, with debug level
1. Launch Configuration Manager
2. Open property for each server
3. Click on Options
4. Open section "log"
5. Add or modify entry "file"

6. Value: debug,/u01/genesys/gad_server.log,100,200,zip

For UNIX, it could used following script, and schedule to run hourly

DIR_LOG=/u01/genesys
ZIP="/usr/bin/bzip2 -9"
FUSER=/sbin/fuser
EXT="*.log"

for FILE in $( ls ${DIR_LOG}/${EXT} )
do
   let isFILE_OPEN=$( ${FUSER} ${FILE} )
   if [ ${isFILE_OPEN} = 0 ]
   then
      ${ZIP} ${FILE}
   fi
done

Adjust bzip2 compress level to lower if process take too long. 5 is the default

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