SDX 6.4.x Monitoring and Troubleshooting Guide > Configuring Logging for SDX Components > Overview of Deleting Logs and Process Files for SDX Components

Overview of Deleting Logs and Process Files for SDX Components

For the following SDX components, you can issue a command to clean (delete) certain files that are generated by the process for that component.

• License server
• NIC hosts and monitors
• SAE
• SNMP agent

This command cleans:

• Text files that contain event messages.
• The files to which the machine on which you installed the component redirects the stderr and stdout outputs for that the component.
• Other types of files that the process generates and that are not used to reestablish the state of the SDX component when you restart it. These files vary according to each SDX component.

This command does not delete:

• Configurations in the directory or in local files.
• Information generated by the system logging facilities.
• Files that are required to reestablish the state of the SDX component when you restart it.

We recommend that you clean these files for a component when you stop it. When you restart the component, the SDX software creates new files with the same names as the ones you deleted. Cleaning the files keeps the file size small so that you can find data in the files more easily.