Reading log files

The Logfile property specifies which log files the probe should read. The LogFileFormat property specifies the format of the log file name. If the Sitescope log files are in the same path as the probe working directory, it may not be necessary to specify the entire path. However, as the working directory depends on where the probe was started, the full path should be specified.

If no specific log file name is indicated, the probe attempts to open the log file named according to the current date and the LogFileFormat property. When the date changes on the host machine, the probe searches for the updated log file. The probe then reads the log file and parses the file according to the rules defined in the sitescope.rules file.

By default, the probe expects the date part of the log file name to be UCT. You can, however, specify that this is the local date by using the UseLocalTime property.