Hello SysCP-community,

today I want to introduce the new logging feature for SysCP 1.2.x (not (yet) in trunk)

I thought about how I was looking through logfiles hours and hours these days because I couldn't detect what was wrong and why some services weren't working properly. End of story: a colleague changed some settings without informing me and all the log-reading has been done for nothing.

Such thing shouldn't happen, cause for some of us, time is money. The new logging feature logs setting-changes and keeps you informed of what's going on in your SysCP and who did what and where (depending on the log-level). Logs can be saved to the system-log, a specific file, or to the syscp-database. Even cronjob-actions can be logged (to prevent huge logs we allow this only for one run - you then have to enable cron-logging again). You can even specify more than one log-type and e.g. log to the system-log and the database.

It might also be possible - in later version - to define in which cases the main-admin will be informed via e-mail (e.g. IP/Port changed). Maybe some of you have great ideas to improve this new feature for the upcoming releases.


hf,

Michael