openUTM maintains a log file for every UTM application. This file is called the SYSLOG file. openUTM records all messages intended for the SYSLOG message destination in this file. You can - within certain limits - specify which messages these are to be (see section “Destinations of UTM messages”).
The SYSLOG file for the application is always located in the directory filebase, where filebase is the directory in which the application is installed (base name of the KDCFILE; defined in MAX KDCFILE).
You can create the system log file SYSLOG as:
a simple file: a file with the name filebase/SYSLOG. If this file does not exist when the application is started and no FGG has been set up, openUTM creates the file.
a file generation group (FGG): this directory must be set up by the user by means of the utility routine
kdcslogbefore starting the application. It is sufficient to create the file generation directory; the individual files of the FGG are created for you by openUTM.If you have generated automatic size monitoring for the SYSLOG file, then the SYSLOG must be created as an FGG.
Events occurring during the execution of the application which could be useful for monitoring purposes or for making checks later are logged in the SYSLOG file in the form of UTM messages (e.g. K033, K070). In particular, the SYSLOG file contains important information for diagnostics.
Each time the application is started subsequently, the SYSLOG file is overwritten by openUTM. The logging information from the previous run is lost. Therefore, you should backup the contents of the file if necessary when the application terminates.