Since the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system launched the XML format log file, the author is now working on a project. It is to implement the same software to manage the Windows 7 operating system, Oracle database system and other log files of application services that support XML log files. In fact, the principle is very simple, is to automatically transfer the log files generated by these systems to a log server, and then the database will automatically import these log files into the database server. And use the database triggers and other tools to do some analysis, automatic warning and so on. This can reduce the time it takes for the system administrator to view related logs from time to time, reducing the workload of the system administrator.
so Microsoft introduced the use of log files in XML format, which makes the unified management of the operating system and other non-Microsoft products, log files have the possibility to achieve. Because the XML format is a structured data file, there are many vendors that support it. However, the XML format file has been out for a long time, and should be before the XP operating system. Why is this technology not implemented on the XP operating system? I am confused about this. However, in Windows7, I finally hoped for everyone. It’s better to be late than never.
convenience IV: WEB supportive for better
Sometimes system administrators are often not able to analyze a person related to the logging is completed. It is necessary to complete the relevant log analysis work with the database administrator or other application software owners. This is mainly caused by the continuous refinement of the division of system management personnel. There are a lot of project management software now, all based on WEB. If you combine log files with these WEB project management software, this will greatly help the system administrator's work.
and now XML format file is a text-based format developed, it can be transmitted using HTTP as Html, it does not require any existing network infrastructure adjustments. It can be seen that the support of the WEB service in the XML format file is very good. The system administrator only needs to save the log file as a file in XML format without any adjustment.
In addition to these features, do not need to note is that the compression of the XML file is better. Because the content of the system log is often more, if you want to save the complete log information, you often need to occupy more hard disk space. And if you use XML format files, you can often use less hard disk space than other files. This is mainly because the compression of XML files is better. Because in the XML file, the mark describing the data structure can be reused, the hard disk space can be reduced by the high compression ratio.
However, when using the XML file, you need to pay attention to a problem that some IE browser support for XML documents is not very good. If you use the Netscape8 browser to view the XML file, it will be blank and you will not be able to view its specific content. This issue has been fixed in the Netscape 8.02 version.