Sun Microsystems 3 manual IIS Console Trace Window, Messages and Message Filters

iIS Console Trace Window

4.Click the View Partition Log button.

NOTE If an engine component has not come online, its log file cannot be viewed from iIS Console. In that case you need to access the log file directly on the component’s host node.

iIS Console Trace Window

iIS Console provides a trace window that displays information written to iIS engine component log files. This information consists of output logged by engine components when they encounter exceptions (error conditions), as well as messages generated in process execution.

Messages and Message Filters

iIS engine components—engine units, database services, and the governor— generate many types and levels of messages. These messages are generated in the course of execution and can be used, in addition to exception output, for tracking down problems.

To view these messages you must specifically request the type and level of message you want to see, and for which engine component. The specified messages are then written to the corresponding component log files (and to the iIS Console Trace window).

You can specify message filters in a number of ways:

•You can set an environment variable (FORTE_LOGGER_SETUP) on each node that specifies the message filters for every iPlanet UDS partition (engine component) started on that node.

•You can set message filters for an individual iPlanet UDS partition (overriding the environment variable—or its default value) by specifying a log flag (-fl) on the partition start-up command. (There is currently no way to do this in iIS Console or Conductor Script.)

•You can set message filters dynamically for a running partition (overriding the specification in a logger flag or environment variable) by using the File > Modify Log Flags command in the trace window of the iIS Console (or the Conductor Script ModLogFlags command, page 292).

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