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View server logs


You can use the Administration Console to view the log file for any server in the domain, regardless of whether the server is located on a remote computer for which you might not have login privileges. In addition, the Administration Console's log file viewer provides filtering tools that you can use to limit the set of messages that it displays. For example, you can use the filtering tools to view only the messages that the JDBC subsystem has generated.

To view a server's log messages from the Administration Console:

  1. If you have not already done so, in the Change Center of the Administration Console, click Lock & Edit (see Use the Change Center).
  2. In the left pane of the Console, expand Diagnostics and select Log Files.
  3. In the Log Files table, select the radio button next to the server instance log file you want to view.
  4. Click View.

    The Server Log page displays up to 500 messages in reverse chronological order. The messages at the top of the window are the most recent messages that the server has generated.

    The log viewer does not display messages that have been rotated into archive log files. For more information, see Rotate log files.

  5. Select the radio button next to the log record you want to view.
  6. Click View.

    The page displays the server log file entry, including the probable cause and any action you can take to remedy an error that a message describes.

  7. To filter the list of messages:
    1. Click Customize this table, located at the top of the Server Log File Entries page.
    2. Under Filter, choose a time interval for selecting messages to view.

      If you select Custom, specify the Start Time and End Time for selecting messages.

    3. Specify filtering criteria (a text string) in the Criteria text box.

      The filter expression is specified as a string in the WLDF Query Language. The query language supports Boolean operators: AND, OR, and NOT, and relational operators. For more information on query syntax, see WLDF Query Language.

    4. Click Apply.

      The Administration Console constructs a query that returns the log-message data you request. The query searches in the current log file only. If the log file has been rotated, the query does not search through old messages that have been moved to another file.

  8. To change the default set of message attributes that the log viewer displays:
    1. Click Customize this table, located at the top of the Server Log File Entries page.
    2. To add message attributes to the log viewer display, in the Column Display list boxes, move message attributes from the Available column to the Chosen column.
    3. To remove message attributes from the log viewer display, in the Column Display list boxes, move message attributes from the Chosen column to the Available column.
    4. Click Apply.

Result

None of the items on this page affects the messages that are actually stored in the log file; instead, they determine the log file data that the Administration Console displays.

The Administration Console does not save your filter criteria. The next time you access the Server Log page, the Administration Console uses the default criteria to display messages.


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