Information Management IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management, Version 11.3

Log file definitions

Each of our product services has a separate directory in the default installation. These product services log files appear in each of those default installation directories.

The following list defines each type of log file that is under each service directory.
autologin.log
This log includes events that occur during a computer issued login requests to InfoSphere® MDM Collaboration Server.
cache.log
This log includes messages for the object cache manager.
db.log, db.log.1, db.log.n
These log files include the executed queries, the time when those queries were invoked, and how long each query took to complete.
db_manager.log
This log includes events that occurred when initializing the database drivers.
db_pool
This log is obsolete and no longer used. InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server creates this directory at start up time and output log files to this subdirectory. However, there is no content inside the log files in this subdirectory.
dbcontext.log
This log includes content about the database, such as unexpected transactional commits and rollbacks. For more information, see Scripting tips.
default.log
This log includes the default logger descriptions for InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server. For more information, see InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server log files.
exception.log
This log includes all of the exceptions in the appsvr logs directory, for example, $TOP/logs/appsvr_server_name/exception.log, for all of the application related issues. It includes all of the exceptions in the scheduler logs directory, for example, $TOP/logs/scheduler_server_name/exception.log, for all of the job schedule issues for when a scheduled job fails on run. It includes all of the exceptions in the workflowengine logs directory, for example, $TOP/logs/workflowengine_server_name/exception.log, for all of the workflow related issues. For more information, see Errors in the exception log.
gds.log
This log contains UI and scripting errors for the Global Data Synchronization feature. For more information, see Viewing the Global Data Synchronization log files.
gdsmsg.log
This log contains error messages for the Global Data Synchronization feature.
javaapi.log
This log contains events for Java API extensions and implementations.
mdm_cache.log
This log contains errors, events, and diagnostic information for the system cache.
memory.log
This log contains information about the memory usage that is collected after every fixed interval of time that is specified by the memorymonitor_interval parameter. When the memory monitoring sub-system is enabled and the MEMORY appender in the $TOP/etc/default/log.xml file is set to debug mode, a new record is written in the $TOP/logs/*/memory.log file after each interval defined by the memorymonitor_interval parameter. For more information, see enable_memorymonitor parameter.

In this example, the memory monitor is disabled. enable_memorymonitor=false

mountmgr.log
This log contains events for the mount manager. For more information, see Mount manager parameters.
native_cache.log
This log contains events for third-party components, such as EHCache, which also writes messages to a log file. EHCache log file, native_cache.log, is designated for messages created by this third-party component.
query.log
This log contains messages from parsing and processing WQL queries.
reflect.log
This log contains messages from running reflection-based script operations, such as createJavaConstructor or runJavaConstructor.
request.log
This log contains http request data for the server in a test or non-production environment.
security.log
This log contains messages when users sign in using single signon.
servletfilter.log
This log contains information to help diagnose errors on the user interface components. This log is important if you have a customized InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server user interface.
soap.log
This log contains errors and diagnostic information about the Web services component, which can be used to integrate InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server with other applications. Users of stand-alone InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server deployment can ignore this log.
svc.err
This log contains runtime errors for each JVM. It is the standard error (STDERR) output.
svc.out
This log contains runtime errors for each service creates, and it should be one of the first log files that you analyze when troubleshooting a problem. After starting a service, view the svc.out file for errors or exceptions to ensure that the service started correctly. For more information, see InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server log files.
svc.pid
This log contains the process ID for the service. For more information, see pimSupport.sh script.
trace.log
This log contains the trace messages when you have turned on tracing.
workbench.log
This log contains errors from the Scripting Workbench.
workflow.log
This log contains specific events from the workflow engine.


Last updated: 14 Oct 2014