I was wondering if it would be dangerous to disable rule 60816 (Internal Server Error. The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.)? It seems to be just informational. I'm asking this because this rule is triggered once every 2 seconds or so, and sometimes multiple times per second. I currently have 1,116,507 events like this according to the event viewer.
A related question would be if it is possible to either log less, or do a cleanup of the logs. My ASL web client is becoming very slow when viewing the events list, and as a result, the load shoots up. This is most likely caused by the 2,782,389 events currently in the database ( i assume it loads it from the tortix db).
About rule 60816 and database cleanup
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Re: About rule 60816 and database cleanup
Sure you can disable it. Its just an reporting rule, so disabling it just means it wont show up in the gui, nor will you be alerted about it.
I'd looking into the cause though, 500 errors occurring several times a second makes somethings broken with a web app, or apache module. (More likely the first)
I'd looking into the cause though, 500 errors occurring several times a second makes somethings broken with a web app, or apache module. (More likely the first)
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Re: About rule 60816 and database cleanup
Thank you for your answer Mike Most of these alerts were regarding one of my sites that had 34,219,908 hits so far this month, and 165,890 code 500's. So that amount is quite small compared to the total nr of page hits. A lot of the 60816 alerts were also about code 302's, which is not a real error i think.
One i see appear several times (not a lot) is:
Apache-Error: [file "/builddir/build/BUILD/httpd-2.2.3/server/util_script.c"] [line 433] [level 19] Premature end of script headers
I don't have that file (util_script) on my server, or is that nothing to worry about?
Is it possible to clean out the logs? Basically delete (or archive) everything older than 1 month or so?
One i see appear several times (not a lot) is:
Apache-Error: [file "/builddir/build/BUILD/httpd-2.2.3/server/util_script.c"] [line 433] [level 19] Premature end of script headers
I don't have that file (util_script) on my server, or is that nothing to worry about?
Is it possible to clean out the logs? Basically delete (or archive) everything older than 1 month or so?
Re: About rule 60816 and database cleanup
This was my question perhaps make it 7 Days logs and one Month.Sempiterna wrote:Thank you for your answer Mike Most of these alerts were regarding one of my sites that had 34,219,908 hits so far this month, and 165,890 code 500's. So that amount is quite small compared to the total nr of page hits. A lot of the 60816 alerts were also about code 302's, which is not a real error i think.
One i see appear several times (not a lot) is:
Apache-Error: [file "/builddir/build/BUILD/httpd-2.2.3/server/util_script.c"] [line 433] [level 19] Premature end of script headers
I don't have that file (util_script) on my server, or is that nothing to worry about?
Is it possible to clean out the logs? Basically delete (or archive) everything older than 1 month or so?