Settings
op5 LogServer stores the logged data in three different locations:
•A local database for normal web access of latest data
•Compressed archive for longer term storage on local filesystem
•Compressed archive on remote file server for storage up to many years, only limited by the amount of disk space available
We recommend that you use op5 Monitor to check the available disk space on all disks used to store log data, so that you receive an alert if disk space is insufficient.
The picture below shows how the settings page looks like. Each option will be described in the next sections.
Storage Settings
Database Storage
How long you wish to keep data in the database - the Rotate database After setting - depends on how much data you log. Most organisations are happy with the default setting of 5 days, but if you log very much data you may need to store it for a shorter amount of time, regarding performance and disk space used.
Note: Old values will be converted if you upgrade.
Local Storage
The Local Storage Path is a setting you normally do not need to touch, unless you wish to save it on another storage unit.
The Keep archave in local storage setting with its default of 5 days regulates for how long the data will be stored in the local filesystem on the op5 LogServer machine. After this period of time, data will be stored only on the remote file server - still accessible but the access will be slower.
The issue is disk space; you would normally want to save data for as long as possible, without filling up the local hard disk. Keep in mind that since the amount of logged data per day often increases over time, you need a lot of free disk space for the future.
Note: Old values will be converted if you upgrade.
Remote storage
You should mount a remote file server in the file system on your LogServer machine. You can read more about this in Section B -
Using Remote Storage.
When you have done so, set the Remote Storage Path to the mount point - you can use /opt/logserver/remote or any other path you choose.
If you wish to impose a time limit on the remote storage with the setting Keep Archive in Remote Storage.
Note: During upgrade Forever will be converted to 999 months.
Note: 999 Months is the maximum limit.
Enable fulltext index
In some environments full text indexing of log messages is not really a good thing.
For example if you have a lot of log messages from a firewall that contains a lot of ”non-words”, binary data dumps and such.
Log messages like that can hog your CPU and affect the responsiveness of the op5 LogServer system.
Note: If you turn off the full text index, queries using full text syntax will still work but a bit slower.
The monitor host
Here you can define the hostname of your op5 monitor server that will be used in the links in the host field in the search result.
Use Monitor 5
Check this check box to have the links in the host field in the search result pointing to the new Ninja Gui instead of the old 4.x version.
Host information page
If you like to have an custom URL, instead of the standard URL to Monitor for the link in the host field in the search result, you can define it here.
Note: You still need to define the hostname in the text field The monitor host.
This can be any URL and to have the hostname added to the URL just use a [host] like in this example:
Example 6 /index.php?host=[host]
Import filter
You can import already exported filters here. Just click on Browse to choose the file. Then click on Import to import the filters.
Note: Every imported filter will be set as global with default permissions.
Export filters
Choose the filters you like to export and ”move“ them over from Available filters to Selected filters. Click on Export to save the XML file containing the filters. You can then import them via the Importfilters section in Settings.
When exporting a filter that depends on an other filter both of themwill be exported to make sure dependencies are untouched.
Note: Both global and private filters can be exported and no permission settings will be included
Users and Groups
To access
Users and Groups, you have to be logged on as a user with admin privileges. If you have
user administrator privileges, you will see a link called
Users and Groups in the main menu at the top.

User Management
Add user
To add a new user click on


•Fill in Username
•Real Name
•Email
•Password
•Repeat Password
•Select the group(s) you want the user to belong to
•Select the default filter to be used for the user
•And press

Edit User
•To edit a user, click on

Delete User
•To delete a user, click on

and answer “OK” on the popup.
Changing password as user
When logged in to the op5 LogServer you will see your username and a logout button in the top right corner.

Pressing the username will popup a “Update password” dialogue.
•Enter your old password
•Type in your new password
•Verify your new password by re-typing it
Group Management
As default all new created user can see all log messages. To have it the opposite way you should remove the group all from the filter all. The you create groups for different level of users and set the permissions on the filters for the groups you created.
Default Groups
op5 LogServer comes with a couple of default groups that can’t be deleted:
Group | Description |
Filter Administrators | Create/Manage Global filters, Create/Manage Summary reports |
Import Administrators | Import old logs from archive into DB |
Report Administrators | Create/Manage Auto reports, No access to Summary reports |
Settings Administrators | Access/Change Settings |
User Administrators | Create/Manage Users/Groups |
Summary Viewers | View Summary reports |
Add Group
•To add a new group click on

in the top menu
•Then on the tab

•And press


•Fill in name
•Description
•Select and move the users you will assign/remove to this group
•And press

Edit group
•To edit a group, click on

or doubleclick on the row for the group.

•To delete a group, click on

and answer “OK” on the popup.