All the configuration changes performed using the administration console is logged by the administration server. Some common actions logged are creating new configuration, creating virtual servers and configuring instances settings. However, configuration level details like accessing a web application or exceptions raised while accessing a web application are logged separately by the configuration.
Changing the configuration level log settings is described at Editing Log Settings
The following table describes the fields in the Log preferences section:
Table 2 Field Description > Editing Administration Server Log Preferences
Field | Description |
|---|---|
Server Log Location | Log location where the errors will be stored. Provide a valid server path for maintaining the log files. Also check if the administration server has the permission to write in the specified directory for UNIX systems. The default location is ../log/errors. |
Log Verbosity Level | This option provides you with an elegant way of setting log granularity. For testing and debugging, the recommended level is finest. For production environment, the recommended log level is failure or security. catastrophe log level will log very few details. |
Create a Console Window | Spawns a new console window where the application data will be logged. |
Log messages to Event Viewer | Check this box to let the administration server log messages to the system Event Viewer. |
Log messages to System Log | Check this box to let the administration server log messages to the system log. |
Log application data written to stderr | Check this box to let the administration server log application data written to the standard error window. |
Log application data written to console | Check this box to let the administration server log application data written to the standard console window. |
Log application data written to stdout | Check this box to let the administration server log application data written to the standard output window. |
Date Format | The time format, which will be used to append time stamps to the error messages. The default value is [%d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S] |