ASE log messages - PingIntelligence for APIs

ASE log messages - PingIntelligence for APIs - 5.2

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PingIntelligence for APIs 5.2 (Latest)

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APISecurity

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The following tables list the critical log messages from controller.log and balancer.log files. Note that the balancer.log file is not rotated while the controller.log file is rotated every 24 hours. For more information on API Security Enforcer (ASE) logs, see ASE access, management, and audit logs.

controller.log messages:
Log message	Description
unknown cluster uuid	This message is logged in controller.log when an ASE node with a different cluster ID or secret key tries to join an ASE cluster. For more information, see Setting up an ASE cluster.
resolve error	This message is logged in controller.log when ASE is not able to resolve API Behavioral Security (ABS) or server hostname.
connect error	This message is logged in controller.log when ASE is not able to connect to ABS or a server.
handshake error	This message is logged in controller.log when connection to ABS or server because of problems in SSL handshake.
error while sending message to lb connection	This message is logged in controller.log when there is a IPC connection failure between ASE's controller and balancer modules.
error while reading message from lb connection	This message is logged in controller.log when there is a IPC connection failure between ASE's controller and balancer modules.
License file `<license file path>` is expired. Please renew your license	This message is logged in controller.log when PingIntelligence license has expired. For more information, see Configuring and updating an ASE license.
Unexpected Error	This message is logged in controller.log when ASE's controller module is unavailable. This is a fatal error.
info \| event \| event type: <event type> event value : `<value of event>`	The following events are logged logs even if email alert is not enabled: Cluster node up Cluster node down server state changed to Up server state changed to Down log upload service failed error while uploading log file If email_alert is enabled, then all events will be available in logs. For more information, see Email alerts and reports.
api memory limit reached. total number of cookies dropped `<count>`	This message is logged in controller.log when ASE is dropping cookies because of low API memory. For more information, see api_memory_size in Defining an API using API JSON configuration file in sideband mode.
stopping API Security Enforcer	This message is logged in controller.log when ASE stops.
API Security Enforcer started	This message is logged in controller.log when ASE starts.

balancer.log messages
Log message	Description
/bin/bash: line 0: echo: write error: Permission denied /bin/bash: line 0: echo: write error: Permission denied
\| warn \| process_id : process_id_number \| tcp_fe \| !!!! low memory : connection dropped due to low memory !!!!	This message is logged in controller.log when ASE is running low on memory because of which ASE drops the client connections.