Campaign: RFT Log Updates

Campaign Leader: Jennifer Schopf

People: RFT Developer TBD, Jen Schopf

Projects: CEDPS

Technologies: RFT

Objective:
Extend and clarify RFT logs according to CEDPS best practices guide. This is a
CEDPS deliverable.


Benefits:
Within CEDPS, a best practices for Logging guideline has been written
http://cedps.net/wiki/index.php/LoggingBestPractices
The goal of this work has been to define a uniform format and minimum set of
data that middleware logs contain in order to make the use of those logs for
troubleshooting and fault detection more straightforward, and will allow
performance analysis, security auditing, and incident tracing.


Implementation details/tasks:
1)    Fix timestamp formatting
2)    Verify start/end for each event
3)    Make sure event names match recommended event names, when possible
4)    Make sure error numbers include description of error


Deliverables:
Augmented code, to be part of 4.1.2
Documentation

Resources:
Developer: 1.5(?) days of coding
Developer: 0.5 days of testing, documentation
Jen/LBNL folks (Brian Tierney, Dan Gunter): couple hours of
explaining/coordinating