Avaya SBC can log SIP messages as processed by different subsystems and also log PPM messages. The traceSBC utility can process the log files in real-time by opening the most recent log files in the given directories. traceSBC also checks regularly if a new file is generated, in which case the old one is closed and processing continues with the new one. A new log file is generated every time the relevant processes restart, or when the size of the file reaches the limit of about 10 MBytes.

Log locations

The traceSBC logs for SIP are available at:

/archive/log/tracesbc/tracesbc_sip

The traceSBC logs for PPM are available at:

/archive/log/tracesbc/tracesbc_ppm

Active files are of the following format:

-rw-rw---- 1 root root 112445 Aug 21 10:12 tracesbc_sip_1408631651

Inactive or closed files are of the following format:

-rw-rw---- 1 root root 175236 Aug 21 06:33 tracesbc_sip_1408617250_1408620820_1 or

-rw-rw---- 1 root root 31706 Jul 10 13:34 tracesbc_sip_1436549674_1436553270_1.gz