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Enabling Web Services Tracing

You can enable Web services tracing on the Siebel Server to write all inbound and outbound SOAP documents to a log file.

To enable Web services tracing

1. Navigate to the Administration - Server Configuration screen, Servers view.

   The view that appears displays three different list applets. The top applet lists the Siebel Servers for the enterprise. The middle applet has three tabs—Components, Parameters and Events. The bottom applet has two tabs—Events and Parameters.

2. In the top list applet, select the Siebel Server that you want to configure.
3. In the middle applet, click the Components tab.

   This list applet contains the components for the Siebel Server selected in the top applet.

   Choose the relevant application object manager.

4. In the bottom applet, click the Parameters tab.

   This list applet contains the parameters for the Component selected in the middle applet.

5. Set the Log Level to 4 for any or all of the following Event Types.

   Event Type	Alias	Description	Comment
   Web Service Performance	WebSvcPerf	Web Service Performance Event Type	Used for performance logging
   Web Service Outbound Argument Tracing	WebSvcOutboundArgTrc	Web Service Outbound Run-time Argument Tracing	Used for logging arguments to the outbound dispatcher
   Web Service Outbound	WebSvcOutbound	Web Service Outbound Run-time Event Type	Used for run-time logging of outbound Web services
   Web Service Loading	WebSvcLoad	Web Service Configuration Loading Event Type	Used for logging of the loading of Web services
   Web Service Inbound Argument Tracing	WebSvcInboundArgTrc	Web Service Inbound Run-time Argument Tracing	Used for logging arguments to the inbound dispatcher
   Web Service Inbound	WebSvcInbound	Web Service Inbound Run-time Event Type	Used for logging at Web service inbound run time. Information is logged to the inbound dispatcher
   Web Service Design	WebSvcDesign	Web Service Design-time Event Type	Used for logging at Web service design time. For example, at the time of WSDL import and generation

6. In the middle applet, click the Components tab.
7. Select the EAI Object Manager component, and then click the Parameters tab.

   The Component Parameters list appears.

8. Click Advanced to see the advanced parameters. (Click Reset to hide them again.)
9. Query for Enable Business Service Argument Tracing.
10. Set its Value and Value on Restart fields to True.
11. Restart or reconfigure the server component.

    For information on restarting server components and on advanced and hidden parameters, see Siebel System Administration Guide.