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:: Paul Bunyan Features ::
A
Logger of Legendary Proportion!
Paul Bunyan offers a wide array of robust
functionality. Click on the features below to see how Paul
Bunyan resolves your diagnostic and analysis needs. To
see list of
features by Edition - click here
Centralized
Logging Log messages spanning threads, processes, languages,
machines, and sites all get pulled together for single source viewing.
No manual merging of application logs, text files, or databases.
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One-to-Many /
Many-to-One Connectivity
Multiple viewers can simultaneously download
log
messages from a single message server or conversely a single viewer
can be used to download log messages from multiple servers. The same
is true with regard to servers forwarding messages to other servers
or passing them to message
handlers.
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Lightning Speed - Virtually Zero Impact on Performance
Paul Bunyan is lightning fast and with logging
rates above 50K messages/second is virtually undetectable in even
the most performance critical applications.
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Minimal (and Configurable!) Memory, CPU, and Resource Impact
Paul Bunyan uses internal data compression in memory,
on disk, and on the wire and does all backend processing on low priority
threads. It is extremely resource efficient and is completely configurable
with regard to process memory usage and disk space usage.
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Ships With Release Builds (and With No Royalties!)
Paul Bunyan was designed to be left in and shipped
with release builds of code. It is extremely
fast, light, and secure.
It also requires no modifications to build and/or installation procedures
as there are no DLLs or other components to ship (if using the C/C++
API) and it is self disabling on machines where Paul Bunyan is not
installed. It is highly advantageous to leave the logging code compiled
into shipping applications since enabling it then requires nothing
more than installing Paul Bunyan.
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Supports Wide Array of Programming Languages and Environments
The native API is C and C++ which can be called
from many other languages such as Assembly and PASCAL. There is also
a COM wrapper that can be invoked from automation clients, ASP (Active
Server Pages), VB Script, Visual Basic, and VBA-supporting applications
such as Microsoft’s Access, Word, Excel. Additional API extensions
are also available as downloadable freeware. Current API extensions
include SQL Server, Sybase, InstallShield, and others.
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Supports
Both Unicode and ANSI Character Sets
The C/C++ API and COM interface both fully support
the Unicode character set for internationalization usage. It is supported
concurrently with the ANSI version of the API so that an application
can simultaneously log Unicode and ANSI data regardless of how it
is compiled.
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Rich
Contextual Information
Each log message contains fields for message type,
timestamps (Source, Local, and GMT), component, context, machine,
process, module, file, line number, process id, and thread id.
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Powerful Message Filtering
Paul Bunyan supports filtering functionality that
is very simple to use yet very powerful. Filtering can be used on
an inclusive or exclusive basis and can be applied as selectively
as desired to any log message field or fields.
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Multiple Display Queries
Paul Bunyan supports the concept of queries which
are essentially filters with associated display parameters. There
may be as many queries as desired for selecting, sorting, and viewing
log messages in various manners.
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Import / Export Capability
Log messages can be exported in standard format
readable by virtually any import facility. All objects within a workspace
can also be imported from one workspace to another.
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Security / Privacy
Log messages are encrypted immediately upon creation
even before they are transmitted to the message server and stay encrypted
whether on disk or wire. Further, log messages can be locked up programmatically
with message keys at the time of creation and subsequently only downloaded
and viewed by users providing that message key so there is no risk
of airing sensitive logging in front of clients or competition.
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Message Forwarding
Log messages can be
forwarded from one
message
server to another. They can be forwarded from one server to many,
many to one, and/or cascaded serially. This allows, for instance,
messages from multiple internal machines on a site to be forwarded
to one central externally reachable location where they can be downloaded
or processed by message
handlers.
It also allows log messages to be routed to machines where
they can be processed with local message
handlers.
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Open Architecture (Support for Custom Message Handlers)
Paul Bunyan's powerful open
architecture provides access to
log messages via its
message handler interface. Message handlers are used for
handling events, logging transactions to databases, creating
audit trails, translating and forwarding messages to enterprise
event handling systems (e.g. Tivoli®, NetIQ®, RoboMon®,
or Opalis®), and more. Diamond Sierra has already
released two such products - Ox and
Falcon
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