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iIS Console Trace Window

This section discusses how to use the iIS Console Trace window to select and display messages generated by iIS engine components.

Specifying Message Filters

The syntax for specifying log message filters is shown in Figure 7-1. Generally you specify a standard output log file, “%stdout,” as the log file name (see “Engine Log Files” on page 210). You can specify more than one log file if you want different information written to different files. For each file you can specify any number of filters, each separated by a space.

Figure 7-1Specifying iPlanet UDS Message Output Filters

FORTE_LOGGER_SETUP (or -fl flag):

“file_name (message_type [:service_type[:group_number[:level_number]]])...”

Message Types

err	Error messages
sec	Security messages
aud	Audit messages
prf	Performance information
cfg	Configuration modification
trc	Debugging information

*all of the above

In general, for each log file you can specify four levels of filter, as follows:

Message type (mandatory) You can include more than one message type separated by spaces—the message types available are shown above.

Service type Each message type can be divided into a maximum of ten service types, which typically map to important application services.

Group number Each service type can be divided in turn into a maximum of 63 group numbers, which typically map to a group of facilities.

Level number Each group number can be subdivided into up to 255 additional levels.

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