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You can download this log_generator tool for Mac OS X right now and and use it to generate logs for 5 years.

Iguana X has a log generator tool built into it.

How do you use it?

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Download both files into a folder

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• The script will tell you the timestamp of the oldest log generated - you will need this later

• Wait for the script to say Finished

• From the Iguana X dashboard, double click on the component created in the previous part to bring up its information

  • From the url, copy the part after component=

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• Then from the Mac OS X terminal run the following command, replacing <component> with what you copied from the url:

./log_generator --months 60 --component <component>

• The script will generate 5 years worth of logs, with 1000 messages per day each 1 kb in size. So, the command generates about 1.7 gb of log datachange the URL to #log_generator

  • For example, change this:

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    to this:

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• On this new page, use the dropdown to select the Source component created in the earlier part

• Also change the number of months of logs to generate to 60

• Click Run and wait for the output to look like this:

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• You can see the logs by going to the logs tab in Iguana X and using the dropdown at the top right to select your component