The Message Logger for the LHCb On-Line Farm

The Message Logger is a utility which provide a logger facility for the processes running on the nodes of the on-line farm. It can also be used to collect the processes’ stdout/stderr. The Message Logger can be exploited using two different policies: either as a no-drop logger facility (messages cannot be lost, but a write to the logger facility blocks in case of full-buffer condition, due e.g. to a network congestion) or as a congestion-proof logger facility (a write to the logger facility never locks even in case of network congestion, but, in this case, messages are dropped). The Message Logger package includes a Linux DIM server (logSrv), a Linux terminal/command-line DIM client (logViewer) and a PVSS DIM client.