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Chapter 4 - DSpace at Waseda University

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<strong>Chapter</strong> 3<br />

hardware such as SoC (Systems on Chip) technology, embedded software became very<br />

complex software. These technologies cause many innov<strong>at</strong>ions such as smartphone, PDA,<br />

netbook and tablet PC, etc.<br />

On the other hand, these innov<strong>at</strong>ions make system complic<strong>at</strong>ed, and increases errors and<br />

bugs continuously when the developing of the embedded systems. Moreover, these problems<br />

need a lot of time and effort to fix up. In addition, it became very important to way to fix up<br />

the errors and bugs because it is closely rel<strong>at</strong>ed to the performance and stability of the system.<br />

Therefore, most developers and system managers are analyzing event logs to figure out the<br />

best solutions for the problems.<br />

3.1 Event log<br />

Event logging and event logs monitoring play an important role in modern IT systems.<br />

Today, many applic<strong>at</strong>ions, oper<strong>at</strong>ing systems, network devices, and other system components<br />

are able to log their events to a local or remote log server. For this reason, event logs are an<br />

excellent source for determining the health st<strong>at</strong>us of the system, and a number of tools have<br />

been developed over the past 15-20 years for monitoring event logs in real-time [45].<br />

3.1.1 Event logging<br />

The events th<strong>at</strong> occur in the system depend on the st<strong>at</strong>us of the system, it is always<br />

changing. When a system component encounters an event, the component could emit an<br />

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