Configuring logging properties using the administrative console

Use this task to specify that the monitoring function publish service component events to a logger file.

About this task

Before applications can log monitored events, you must specify the service component event points that you want to monitor, what level of detail you require for each event, and format of the output used to publish the events to the logs. Using the administrative console, you can:

Enable or disable a particular event log.
Specify the level of detail in a log.
Specify where log files are stored, how many log files are kept, and a format for log output.

You can change the log configuration statically or dynamically. Static configuration changes affect applications when you start or restart the application server. Dynamic or run time configuration changes apply immediately.

When a log is created, the level value for that log is set from the configuration data. If no configuration data is available for a particular log name, the level for that log is obtained from the parent of the log. If no configuration data exists for the parent log, the parent of that log is checked, and so on, up the tree until a log with a non-null level value is found. When you change the level of a log, the change is propagated to the children of the log, which recursively propagates the change to their children, as necessary.

Procedure

Enable logging and set the output properties for a log:
In the navigation pane, click Servers > Server Types > WebSphere application servers.
Click the name of the server that you want to work with.
Under Troubleshooting, click Logging and tracing.
Click Change Log Detail levels.
The list of components, packages, and groups displays all the components that are currently registered on the running server; only server events that have been invoked at least once appear on this list. All server components with event points that can be logged are listed under one of the components that start with the name WBILocationMonitor.LOG.
- To select events for a static change to the configuration, click the Configuration tab.
- To select events for a dynamic change to the configuration, click the Runtime tab.
Select the event or group of events that you want to log.
Set the logging level for each event or group of events.
Note: Only the levels FINE, FINER, and FINEST are valid for CEI event logging.
Click Apply.
Click OK.
To have static configuration changes take effect, stop then restart the server.

Results

By default, the loggers publish their output to a file called trace.log, located in the install_root/profiles/profile_name/logs/server_name folder.