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Configuring Logging

Viewing Server Logs

To view the log files:

■In the developer profile, go to Applications Server→ Logging → View Log Files.

■In the cluster and enterprise profiles, go to Configurations→ Configuration → Logger Settings → General, and click View Log Files.

Use the options provided in the Search Criteria area to display log results based on your preferences.

■Instance Name — Choose an instance name from the drop-down list to view the log for that server instance. The default is the current server instance.

■Log File — Choose a log file name from the drop-down list to view the contents of that log. The default is server.log.

■Timestamp — To view the most recent messages, select Most Recent (the default). To view messages only from a certain period of time, select Specific Range and type a date and time value in the From and To fields that appear. For the Time value, the syntax must take the following form (SSS stands for milliseconds):

hh:mm:ss.SSS

For example:

17:10:00.000

If the From value is later than the To value, an error message appears.

■Log Level — To filter messages by log level, choose a log level from the drop-down list. By default, the display includes all messages that appear in the server log at the chosen log level and more severe levels. Select the checkbox labeled “Do not include more severe messages” to display messages at only the chosen level.

To ensure that the messages you want to view appear in the server log, first set the appropriate log levels on the Log Levels page. See “Configuring Log Levels” on page 168.

If you choose to filter log messages based on log level, only messages matching the specified filter criteria are shown. However, this filtering does not affect which messages are logged to the server log.

The most recent 40 entries in the server log appear, with the settings specified on the Logging Settings and Log Levels pages.

Click the arrow next to the Timestamp header to sort the messages so that the most recent one appears last.

To view a formatted version of any message, click the link marked

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