This article applies to:

• Firewall Suite 4.X

Question:

Procedure:

One method of log file retrieval, in addition to the use of wildcards, is to specify a date macro. This specification may also be used as a naming convention for reports so that the reports are not overwritten.

Examples:

• Todays date is 05/26/2001 and todays log file is ex20010526.log

  ex%yyyy%%mm%%dd%.log
  Pulls todays log file - ex20010526.log

  ex%yyyy%%mm-1%%dd%.log
  Pulls last months log file - ex20010426.log

  ex%yyyy%%mm%%dd-5%.log
  Pulls the log file from five days ago - ex20010521.log

  ex%yyyy-1%%mm%%dd%.log
  Pulls last years log file - ex20000526.log

• Todays date is 02/22/2001 and todays log file is log200153.txt
  [where 53 is the day of the year]

  log%yyyy%%dy%.txt
  Pulls todays log file - log200153.txt

• Todays date is 03/20/2001
  

  log%yyyy%%dy%.txt
  Pulls todays log file where log file name is log200179.txt
  [79 is the day of the year]

  log%yyyy%%wy%.txt
  Pulls this weeks log file where log file name is log200112.txt
  [12 is the week of the year]

  log%yyyy%%Mon%%wm%.txt
  Pulls this weeks log file where log file name is log2001Mar3.txt
  [3 is the week of the month]
  * * * Notice the case sensitivity of %Mon% - Mar

  log%yyyy%%wy%%dw%.txt
  Pulls todays log file where the log file name is log2001122.txt
  [12 is the week of the year and 2 is the day of the week]

• To run a report on the last seven days:

  Start %Date-8%%mm%/ %dd%/%yyyy%
  

  End %Date-1%%mm%/ %dd%/%yyyy%
  

This article was previously published as:

NETIQKB986