Oracle® Application Server Web Cache Administrator's Guide
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This chapter explains how to use the tools provided by OracleAS Web Cache for diagnostic purposes.
This chapter contains these topics:
With Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Application Server Control Console or OracleAS Web Cache Manager, you can view a list of the most popular requests and a list of the contents of the cache, generating the following types of lists:
A list of the URLs of the most popular requests received by the cache since the cache was last started
Popularity is calculated using two factors: how many times the request was made and how recently the requests were made. You can specify: only objects stored in the cache, only objects not stored in the cache, or all requests received by the cache.
A list of the URLs of the objects currently in the cache
OracleAS Web Cache writes the list of URLs to a file. You can use this list to verify that the caching rules are caching the objects that you want cached.
To view the list of URLs of the most popular requests with Application Server Control Console, navigate to Web Cache Home page > Performance tab > All Sites section > Popular Requests link.
See Also: "Listing Popular Browser Requests" in Enterprise Manager Online Help for instructions |
To view the list of URLs of the most popular requests with OracleAS Web Cache Manager:
In the navigation pane, select Monitoring > Popular Requests.
From the For Cache list, select a cache and click View. (More than one cache is listed only if you configured a cache cluster.)
In the List Most Popular Requests area, for Number of Objects, enter the maximum number of URLs you want displayed.
For Filter Objects, select one of the following options:
All: All requests received by the cache.
Cached: Only those requests stored in the cache.
Not Cached: Only those requests not stored in the cache.
Click Update.
OracleAS Web Cache Manager displays a table containing the list of URLs of requests since the cache was last started. The table contains the following columns:
Rank: A ranking, from 1 to 100, based on the score of the object. A rank of 1 represents the object with the highest score; that is, the most popular object.
Object Name: The URL of the object. The URLs may contain additional descriptive information, such as cookie or session information.
Size: The size of the object. The size is represented in bytes, kilobytes (KB), or megabytes (MB).
Cached: Whether or not the object is cached. The possible values are:
Yes: The object is cached.
Yes, but expired: The object is cached, but it is expired. (To lessen the performance impact of invalidation and expiration, OracleAS Web Cache serves some stale objects until the origin servers have the capacity to refresh them.)
No: The object is not cached.
Cache Reason: The reason that the object is cached or not cached. Possible values are:
BY_CACHING_RULE: Cached or not cached because of the caching rule.
BY_HTTP_HEADERS: Cached or not cached because of information in the HTTP header.
BY_PRESEEDING: Cached because the objects were preseeded for use by end-user performance monitoring.
BY_REFERENCE_TTL: Cached because of the nonzero value of the reference TTL (time-to-live parameters) specified in the ESI tag.
BY_SURROGATE_CONTROL_HEADER: Cached or not cached because of information in the Surrogate-Control response header.
BY_VALIDATION: Cached because of the ETag response header.
BY_X_ORACLE_HEADERS: Cached or not cached because of information in the X-Oracle-Cache
response header.
NC_COOKIE_MISMATCH: Not cached because the response contains a cookie that is not present in the request or that has a different value than the same cookie in the request.
NC_HTTP_RESPONSE_CODE: Not cached because the response was not an HTTP status code of 200.
NC_NO_DIRECTIVE: Not cached because no directive or rule has stated that the object should be cached.
NC_POST_BODY_TOO_BIG: Not cached because the POST body was too large to be cached.
NC_REQUEST_METHOD: Not cached because the request method was other than a GET or POST.
NC_SIZE_TOO_LARGE: Not cached because the object is larger than the size specified as the Maximum Object Size.
NC_WITH_QUERYSTRING: Not cached because the request contains a query string but the request did not match any caching rules.
Caching Rule: If a caching rule is associated with the object, this column displays a link to the Cacheability Rule Details page. That page shows the regular expression and site information for the URL.
Compressed: Whether or not the object is compressed.
Using OracleAS Web Cache Manager, you can also generate a list of the URLs of all of the objects currently stored in the cache. Application Server Control Console does not support this feature.
In the navigation pane, select Monitoring > Popular Requests.
The Popular Requests page appears in the right pane.
From the For Cache list, select a cache and click View. (More than one cache is listed only if you have a cache cluster.)
For List All Contents in Cache, click Export to File.
The Export Cache Contents dialog box appears. It lists the file to which OracleAS Web Cache will write the URLs. The file is written to the OracleAS Web Cache log directory and is named webcache_contents.txt
.
To write the list to a different location, enter a complete file specification in the text box.
Click Submit.
OracleAS Web Cache writes the list of URLs to the text file you specified. Each time you generate the list, OracleAS Web Cache appends the data to the existing file. It lists the date that the data was appended to the file, followed by the URLs of the objects currently cached. The following example shows an excerpt of the webcache_contents.txt
file:
Cache Contents at Wed Jul 20 11:47:03 2005 www.company.com:80/images/lnav/lnav_products.gif www.company.com:80/images/rnav/rnav_red_line_1.gif www.company.com:80/images/bullets_and_symbols/blk_line_bullet_10.gif . . . Cache Contents at Wed Jul 20 13:01:24 2005 www.company.com:80/images/white_spacer_xp.gif www.company.com:80/images/white_spacer.gif www.company.com:80/images/miniappsnet.gif . . .
OracleAS Web Cache events and errors are stored in an event log. The event log can help you determine which objects have been inserted into the cache. It can also identify listening port conflicts or startup and shutdown issues. By default, the event log has a file name of event_log
and is stored in $ORACLE_HOME/webcache/logs
on UNIX and ORACLE_HOME
\webcache\logs
on Windows.
This section contains the following topics:
The Oracle-ECID
request header is used to track requests as they move through the Oracle Application Server architecture. This information is especially useful for diagnostic purposes. Because OracleAS Web Cache is the initial receiver of client requests, it sets the request header before forwarding a cache miss to an origin server. The Oracle-ECID
request header takes the following format:
Oracle-ECID: request_id, sequence_number
In the format, request_id
is a 64-bit unique integer for the request, and sequence_number
is the hop number of the request as it passes through Oracle Application Server. OracleAS Web Cache typically assigns an initial sequence number of 0 to a request. As a request passes from OracleAS Web Cache to other Oracle Application Server components, the request ID remains constant, but the sequence number increments with each hop.
You can configure OracleAS Web Cache to log the request ID and sequence number from the Oracle-ECID
request header in the event and access logs. To display the Oracle-ECID
request header in the logs, you enable Include Request Details for the event log, and select the x-ecid
field for the access logs. The x-ecid
field is provided by default with the Enhanced CLF (ECLF), Enhanced Combined Log Format, and End-User Performance Monitoring Format. Additionally, you can configure Oracle HTTP Server to log the Oracle-ECID
request header information, enabling you to correlate events at different Oracle Application Server stops for the same request.
OracleAS Web Cache also includes Oracle-ECID
request header information whenever you configure to display diagnostic information in the Server
response-header field or the HTML response body.
See Also: "Displaying Diagnostic and Event Log Information in the HTML Body or Server Response-Header Field" for further information about configuring diagnostic output in theServer response-header field or the HTTP response message that includes Oracle-ECID information
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Event messages are written using either of the following formats:
The default format displays a typical log message for each instance of an event. It displays the request ID and sequence number of the Oracle-ECID
request header so that you can easily find the matching request detail line.
[Timestamp
][severity
message_id
][ecid:request_id
,serial_number
]Event_Log_Message
The request detail format is displayed when you enable Include Request Details. The field [detail]
indicates that the event is for a request. This format is logged the first time an event is logged for a request. In addition to the IP address, site name, and URL of the request, the ID and sequence number of the Oracle-ECID
request header is logged. The Oracle-ECID
request header is used to track requests.
[Timestamp][module_name][detail][ecid: request_id, hop_number] [client: IP_address] [host: site] [url: URL]
Table 15-1 describes the fields for the default event log format.
Table 15-1 Event Log Format
Fields | Description |
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[ |
Date when the event occurred. Time is displayed in either local or Greenwich Mean Time. |
[ |
Severity level and message ID of event log message. Severity level can be one of the following:
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Request ID and hop-sequence number from the |
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Event message |
Table 15-2 describes the fields for the request detail format.
Table 15-2 Event Log Format for Request Details
Fields | Description |
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Date when the event occurred. Time is either displayed in local or Greenwich Mean Time. |
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Request detail event |
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Request ID and sequence number from the |
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IP address of the client that made the request |
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Site name of the request |
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URL of the request |
To configure the event log settings with Application Server Control Console, navigate to Web Cache Home page > Administration tab > Properties > Web Cache > Logging.
See Also: "Configuring Event Logs" in Enterprise Manager Online Help for instructions |
To configure event log settings with OracleAS Web Cache Manager:
In the navigator frame, select Logging and Diagnostics > Event Logs.
Specify cache-specific event log settings:
From the Cache-Specific Event Log Configuration table, select a cache, and then click Edit Selected.
The Edit Cache-Specific Event Log Configuration dialog box appears.
In the Directory field, enter the directory in which to write event logs.
The default is $ORACLE_HOME/webcache/logs
on UNIX and ORACLE_HOME
\webcache\logs
on Windows.
In the Buffering field, select Enabled to enable buffered logging or Disabled to disable buffered logging.
With buffered logging, OracleAS Web Cache writes to the event log after the buffer is full. The buffer size is set to 2048 bytes. When the limit is reached, OracleAS Web Cache writes buffered events to the event log file.
Oracle recommends disabling buffering when you need to see the event log results immediately, such as when you are debugging OracleAS Web Cache.
If buffering is enabled, in the Flush Interval field, enter the maximum threshold, in seconds, when contents of the buffer are written to the event log file.
The default is 10 seconds. When the maximum threshold is reached, OracleAS Web Cache writes buffered events to the event log file. Even if the buffer is not full, the event log is updated at least every 10 seconds. Oracle recommends not changing the default unless you need to lower the interval to see results more frequently.
From the Verbosity list, select the needed level of detail for the event log. The levels are described in Table 15-3.
Table 15-3 Verbosity Levels
Level | Description |
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WARNING |
Provides abnormal-operation events. |
NOTIFICATION |
Provides normal-operation events, such as startup and shutdown. This is the default. |
TRACE |
Provides events for debugging caching rules. |
DEBUG |
Provides detailed events for troubleshooting. This level is intended for Oracle Support Services. |
Click Submit.
Set the global event log settings:
From the Global Event Log Configuration table, click Edit.
The Edit Global Event Log Configuration dialog box appears.
In the File Name field, enter a name for the event log file.
The default file name is event_log
.
From the Time Style list, select either LOCAL or GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to modify the time stamp style associated with entries in the event log file.
In Include Request Details, select Yes to enable the logging of request details or No to disable logging of requests.
Oracle recommends selecting No if either of the following conditions apply:
You are concerned about the performance impact of event log entries for request details
You are running OracleAS Web Cache in a standalone environment without Oracle HTTP Server
See Also:
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In the Rollover Policy section, select Weekly, Daily, Hourly, or Never to specify how often you want OracleAS Web Cache to save current log information to event_log_file.yyyymmdd_hhmm
and write future log information to a new log file with the configured log file name.
Table 15-4 describes additional configuration instructions for Weekly, Daily, and Hourly.
Table 15-4 Configuring Weekly, Daily and Hourly Rollover Policies
Policy | To configure: |
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Weekly |
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Daily |
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Hourly |
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If you have a high-volume site, create a daily or hourly policy.
See Also: "Rolling Over Event and Access Logs" for instructions on immediately rolling over log files |
Click Submit.
Apply changes and restart OracleAS Web Cache:
In the OracleAS Web Cache Manager main window, choose Apply Changes.
In the Cache Operations page, choose Restart to restart OracleAS Web Cache.
This section contains the following event log examples:
Example: Event Log with Startup Entries
The following shows an event log excerpt with successful startup entries:
[25/Jul/2005:19:08:52 +0000] [notification 9612] [ecid: -] OracleAS Web Cache 10g (10.1.2) [25/Jul/2005:19:08:52 +0000] [notification 9403] [ecid: -] Maximum number of file/socket descriptors set to 900. [25/Jul/2005:19:08:52 +0000] [notification 13002] [ecid: -] Maximum allowed incoming connections are 700 [25/Jul/2005:16:43:31 -0700] [notification 9607] [ecid: -] The admin server started successfully. [25/Jul/2005:20:44:37 +0000] [notification 12209] [ecid: -] A 1 node cluster successfully initialized [25/Jul/2005:19:08:52 +0000] [notification 9608] [ecid: -] The cache server process started successfully.
Example: Event Log with Unsuccessful Startup Entries
The following shows an event log excerpt with unsuccessful startup events. OracleAS Web Cache is unable to listen on port 7777, because it is already in use. This can occur if OracleAS Web Cache is already running and listening on that port or another application is using that port.
[25/Jul/2005:19:12:40 +0000] [notification 9612] [ecid: -] OracleAS Web Cache 10g (10.1.2) [25/Jul/2005:19:12:40 +0000] [notification 9403] [ecid: -] Maximum number of file/socket descriptors set to 900. [25/Jul/2005:19:12:40 +0000] [notification 13002] [ecid: -] Maximum allowed incoming connections are 700 [25/Jul/2005:19:12:40 +0000] [alert 13305] [ecid: -] Failed to assign port 7777: Address already in use [25/Jul/2005:19:12:40 +0000] [alert 9707] [ecid: -] Failed to start the server. [25/Jul/2005:19:12:40 +0000] [alert 9609] [ecid: -] The server could not initialize. [25/Jul/2005:19:12:40 +0000] [notification 9610] [ecid: -] The server is exiting.
Example: Event Log with Shutdown Entries
The following shows an event log excerpt with typical shutdown entries:
[25/Jul/2005:19:09:49 +0000] [notification 9703] [ecid: -] Stop Issued. The program will shut down after all accepted requests are served, or a timeout occurs. [25/Jul/2005:19:09:49 +0000] [notification 9610] [ecid: -] The server is exiting.
Example: Event Log with Cache Miss and Cache Hit Entries
The following shows an event log excerpt containing events for a cache-miss request:
[25/Jul/2005:10:30:40 -0700] [req-info] [ecid: 23998683674,0] [client: 10.10.150.35] [host: www.company.com:80] [url: /index.html] [25/Jul/2005:10:30:40 -0700] [trace 11331] [ecid: 23998683674,0] Request matches configured site www.company.com:80. [25/Jul/2005:10:30:40 -0700] [trace 11414] [ecid: 23998683674,0] Initial cache key is composed: www.company.com:80/index.html [25/Jul/2005:10:30:40 -0700] [trace 11304] [ecid: 23998683674,0] Cache miss request. [25/Jul/2005:10:30:40 -0700] [trace 11224] [ecid: 23998683674,0] Site www.company.com:80 matches site-to-server mapping www.company.com:80. [25/Jul/2005:10:30:40 -0700] [trace 11227] [ecid: 23998683674,0] Request is routed to origin server host-server:7778 using load balancing. [25/Jul/2005:10:30:40 -0700] [trace 11403] [ecid: 23998683674,0] begin cacheability decision for following url: www.company.com:80/index.html [25/Jul/2005:10:30:40 -0700] [trace 11407] [ecid: 23998683674,0] URL matches caching rule "\.html?$". [25/Jul/2005:10:30:40 -0700] [trace 11446] [ecid: 23998683674,0] URL which will be cached is: www.company.com:80/index.html [25/Jul/2005:10:30:40 -0700] [trace 11415] [ecid: 23998683674,0] Final cache key is composed: www.company.com:80/index.html [25/Jul/2005:10:30:40 -0700] [trace 11088] [ecid: 23998683674,0] Following URL is now in cache: www.company.com:80/index.html
The following shows an event log excerpt containing events for a subsequent cache-hit request:
[25/Jul/2005:10:32:22 -0700] [req-info] [ecid: 23998788806,0] [client: 10.10.150.35] [host: www.company.com:80] [url: /index.html] [25/Jul/2005:10:32:22 -0700] [trace 11331] [ecid: 23998788806,0] Request matches configured site www.company.com:80. [25/Jul/2005:10:32:22 -0700] [trace 11414] [ecid: 23998788806,0] Initial cache key is composed: www.company.com:80/index.html [25/Jul/2005:10:32:22 -0700] [trace 11415] [ecid: 23998788806,0] Final cache key is composed: www.company.com:80/index.html [25/Jul/2005:10:32:22 -0700] [trace 11338] [ecid: 23998788806,0] URL is in the cache [25/Jul/2005:10:32:22 -0700] [trace 11344] [ecid: 23998788806,0] Returning a freshly cached object.
Example: Event Log with an Invalidation Entry
The following shows an event log excerpt with an event associated with an invalidation request for the removal of object cache.htm
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[25/Jul/2005:19:26:46 +0000] [notification 11706][ecid: 21085932167,0] 10 object (s) matching prefix '/cache/' are invalidated. [25/Jul/2005:19:26:46 +0000] [notification 11748] [ecid: 21085932167,0] Invalidation with INFO 'removing 15k object' has returned with status ' SUCCESS'; number of objects invalidated: '10'.
Example: Event Log with Invalidation Request Errors
The following shows an event log excerpt with an XML invalidation request error. In this example, OracleAS Web Cache is unable to parse the request.
[25/Jul/2005:19:37:36 +0000] [alert 13109] [ecid: 21086599201,0] XML parsing error in N/A. Error code 210: LPX-00210: expected '=' instead of 'H' [25/Jul/2005:19:37:36 +0000] [error 13112] [ecid: 21086599201,0] XML parsing failed. Error Code: 210 [25/Jul/2005:19:37:36 +0000] [error 11716] [ecid: 21086599201,0] Invalidation XML message cannot be parsed.
Example: Event Log with ESI Parsing Errors
The following shows an event log excerpt with ESI parsing errors that indicate a problem with the src
attribute and variable syntax:
[25/Jul/2005:01:59:48 +0000] [detail] [ecid: 19734744942,0] [client: 127.0.0.1] [host: www.company.com:80] [url: /cgi-bin/esi-headers.sh?err1.htm] [25/Jul/2005:01:59:48 +0000] [error 12086] [ecid: 19734744942,0] ESI syntax error. Unrecognized keyword src is at line 3. [25/Jul/2005:01:59:48 +0000] [warning 11064] [ecid: 19734744942,0] ESI object www.company.com:80/cgi-bin/esi-headers.sh?err1.htm parsing error ... [25/Jul/2005:02:11:57 +0000] [detail] [ecid: 19735486051,0] [client: 127.0.0.1] [host: www.company.com] [url: /cgi-bin/esi-headers.sh?err1.htm] [25/Jul/2005:02:11:57 +0000] [error 12095] [ecid: 19735486051,0] ESI syntax error. A variable requires a key at line 3. [25/Jul/2005:02:11:57 +0000] [warning 11064] [ecid: 19735486051,0] ESI object www.company.com:80/cgi-bin/esi-headers.sh?err1.htm parsing error
Example: Event Log with ESI Processing Errors
The following shows an event log excerpt with ESI processing errors that indicate an error fetching an ESI fragment named a.html
and an unknown fragment for an undefined site:
[25/Jul/2005:02:02:37 +0000] [detail] [ecid: 19734914560,0] [client: 127.0.0.1] [host: www.company.com:80] [url: /cgi-bin/esi-headers.sh?err1.htm] [25/Jul/2005:02:02:37 +0000] [warning 12005] [ecid: 19734914560,0] HTTP Client Error 4xx exception in ESI template www.company.com:80/cgi-bin/esi-headers.sh?err1.htm, fragment www.company.com:80/cgi-bin/a.html .... [25/Jul/2005:02:03:38 +0000] [detail] [ecid: 19734980113,0] [client: 127.0.0.1] [host: -] [url: /cgi-bin/esi-headers.sh?err1.htm] [25/Jul/2005:02:03:38 +0000] [warning 11295] [ecid: 19734980113,0] OracleAS Web Cache failed in DNS lookup for host www.company2.com:80. [25/Jul/2005:02:03:38 +0000] [warning 12003] [ecid: 19734980113,0] No connection exception in ESI template www.company.com:80/cgi-bin/esi-headers.sh?err1.htm, fragment www.company2.com:80/a.html
By default, OracleAS Web Cache adds diagnostics information to the Server
response-header field. For diagnostics purposes, it can be useful to also display this information as a textual string in the HTML response body of an object. Once enabled, you simply append a string to the URL of the object into the browser to see the diagnostic information string embedded in the response body:
Web Cache Debug Info: diagnostic_information
You can also select to display event log information, with a verbosity level of TRACE, in the HTML response.
You can additionally configure the diagnostic information to be within HTML comment tags for pages having a Content-Type: html/html
response-header field. Once enabled, the diagnostic information appears within HTML comment tags:
<!-- Web Cache Debug Info: diagnostic_information-->
This section contains the following topics:
For objects sent to browsers, OracleAS Web Cache adds diagnostic information to the Server
response-header field of the HTTP response message:
Server: Oracle Application Server 10g (version) Server_header_from_origin_server OracleAS-Web-Cache-10g/10.1.2.0.2 (diagnostic_information)
The Server
response-header field specifies name/value pairs for Oracle HTTP Server and OracleAS Web Cache. The information for OracleAS Web Cache includes version and diagnostic information.
where diagnostic_information
has the following format:
{ESI_processing_type}{cache_request_type}[;max-age=expiration_time[+removal_time];age=object_age;]{ecid=request_ID,sequence_number}
Table 15-5 describes the diagnostic fields.
Table 15-5 Control Directives for Server
Control Directive | Description |
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Specifies the time, in seconds, to expire the object, and optionally, the time, in seconds, to remove the object from the cache after the expiration time. |
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Shows how long, in seconds, the object has been in the cache. |
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Specifies the request ID and sequence number specified in See Also: "Oracle-ECID Request-Header Field" |
Using the Server
response header information, you can determine whether a request was served from the cache or the origin server. In the following example, the Server
field specifies that the object was a cache hit:
Server: Oracle Application Server 10g (10.1.2) Oracle-HTTP-Server OracleAS-Web-Cache-10g/10.1.2.0.2 (TH;max-age=60+30;age=55;ecid=23248098121,0)
(TH;max-age=60+30;age=55;ecid=23248098121,0)
is the diagnostic information.
T
means this page is composed by ESI
H
means this request resulted in cache hit
max-age=60+30
means that the object is to expire in 60 seconds from population and to be removed from the cache 30 seconds from the expiration. This provides a total of 90 seconds from population.
age=55
in age means that 55 seconds have passed since population of the cache, meaning there are 5 seconds to expiration and 35 seconds to removal
ecid=23248098121,0
specifies the request ID and sequence number from the Oracle-ECID
request header.
To display the Server
response header in the access logs, you select the sc(Server)
field. You must configure the sc(Server)
field as a user-defined access log format.
See Also: "cs(header_name) and sc(header_name) Access Log Fields" and "Configuring Access Logs" for further information about creating a user-defined access log format that includes thesc(Server) field
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To configure diagnostic information in the Server
response-header field or the HTML response body with Application Server Control Console, navigate to Web Cache Home page > Administration tab > Properties > Web Cache > Diagnostics.
See Also: "Configuring the Display of Diagnostic Information" in Enterprise Manager Online Help for instructions |
To configure diagnostic information in the Server
response-header field or the HTML response body with OracleAS Web Cache Manager:
In the navigator frame, select Logging and Diagnostics > Diagnostics.
From the Cache-Specific Page Body Diagnostics table, select a cache, and then click Enable to display diagnostic information in the HTML response body or Disable to disable the display of diagnostic information in the HTML response body.
To set diagnostic settings for the HTML response body:
Click Edit.
The Edit Global Page Body Diagnostics Configuration dialog box displays.
In the URL Flag field, enter the string to append to the URL of the object.
In the Display Event Log Entries for Request field, select Yes to display diagnostic information and TRACE event log entries in the HTML response body, or select No to only display diagnostic information.
Click Submit.
To enable or disable diagnostic settings in the Server
response header, from the Global Server Header Diagnostics table, click Enable or Disable.
Note: When a page is compressed, OracleAS Web Cache does not add debug information. |
To display diagnostic information in HTML comment tags:
Use a text editor to open the webcache.xml
file.
Locate the <DEBUGINFO>
subelement of SECURITY
.
<DEBUGINFO HEADER="YES" EVENTLOG="NO" HTMLCOMMENT="NO" SWITCHSTRING="+wcdebug"/>
Change the value for HTMLCOMMENT
from NO
to YES
.
Save webcache.xml
.
Restart OracleAS Web Cache with the following command:
opmnctl restartproc ias-component=WebCache
OracleAS Web Cache generates an access log that contains information about the HTTP requests sent to OracleAS Web Cache. By default, the access log has a file name of access_log
and is stored in $ORACLE_HOME/webcache/logs
on UNIX and ORACLE_HOME
\webcache\logs
on Windows.
This section contains the following topics:
See Also: Oracle Application Server Administrator's Guide for further information about managing log files with Application Server Control Console |
You can configure the content of the access log files by defining the fields to appear for each HTTP request event. These fields are based on the standard Extended LogFile Format (XLF). By default, OracleAS Web Cache provides support for the following log formats:
This format is the default format applied to access logs. This format is appropriate for most configurations. The CLF format provides support for the following fields:
c-ip
x-log-id
x-auth-id
x-clf-date
x-req-line
sc-status
bytes
This format uses many of the CLF fields and includes the x-ecid
field for tracking the request ID and sequence number specified in Oracle-ECID
request header:
c-ip
x-log-id
x-auth-id
x-clf-date
x-req-line
sc-status
bytes
x-ecid
This format provides support for the CLF fields with the addition of the cs(Referer)
and cs(User-Agent)
fields:
c-ip
x-log-id
x-auth-id
x-clf-date
x-req-line
sc-status
bytes
cs(Referer)
cs(User-Agent)
Select this format when you need to determine what kind of browser is sending the request, and where the browser was visiting before the request was forwarded to OracleAS Web Cache.
This format uses many of the Combined Log Format fields and includes the x-ecid
field for tracking the ID of the specified in Oracle-ECID
request header:
c-ip
x-log-id
x-auth-id
x-clf-date
x-req-line
sc-status
bytes
cs(Referer)
cs(User-Agent)
x-ecid
End-User Performance Monitoring Format
This format provides support for the following fields intended for end-user performance monitoring features:
x-req-type
x-date-start
x-time-start
c-ip
s-ip
x-auth-id
cs(Host)
cs-method
cs-uri
x-protocol
sc-status
bytes
cs-bytes
x-cache
time-taken
r-time-taken
x-time-delay
x-os-timeout
x-ecid
x-cookie(ORACLE_SMP_CHRONOS_ST)
x-cookie(ORACLE_SMP_CHRONOS_LT)
x-cookie(ORACLE_SMP_CHRONOS_GL)
x-glcookie-set
cs(Referer)
cs(User-Agent)
x-esi-info
x-conn-abrt
sc(Content-Type)
If the default formats are not suitable for your environment, you can create custom log formats by specifying the fields that you require. Table 15-6 describes the supported fields. Fields prefixed with x
or r
are proprietary to OracleAS Web Cache.
Table 15-6 Access Log Fields
Field | Description |
---|---|
Content length of the request |
|
IP address of the client |
|
|
Integer that specifies cache status. Cache status is reported as one of the following:
|
HTTP request header sent from the client See Also: "cs(header_name) and sc(header_name) Access Log Fields" |
|
Bytes received from the client |
|
Client-to-OracleAS Web Cache HTTP request method |
|
Client-to-OracleAS Web Cache URI |
|
Client-to-OracleAS Web Cache query portion of URI, omitting the stem |
|
Client-to-OracleAS Web Cache stem portion of URI, omitting the query |
|
Date the transaction completed, in the following format:
|
|
IP address and port number of origin server. For a cache cluster, this field displays the IP and port number of a peer cache in the cache cluster. The information is displayed in the following format:
|
|
Time, in seconds (including microseconds), that OracleAS Web Cache spent communicating with the origin server or peer cache. The time is the duration between the following two points of time:
This field is particularly helpful in providing time information for end-user performance monitoring. |
|
IP address of OracleAS Web Cache computer |
|
HTTP response header sent from OracleAS Web Cache to the client See Also: "cs(header_name) and sc(header_name) Access Log Fields" |
|
OracleAS Web Cache-to-client HTTP status code:
See Also: |
|
Time at which the response from OracleAS Web Cache completed. The time is displayed in the following format:
|
|
Amount of time taken, in seconds (including microseconds), for the transaction to complete |
|
User name of a basic HTTP authentication request |
|
Cache status. Cache status is reported as one of the following:
|
|
Diagnostic information, in the following format:
Example:
|
|
|
Cache key value, in the following format: " |
Date that the response from OracleAS Web Cache completed, in the following format:
|
|
Single character that specifies the status of a cache cluster. The character is reported as one of the following:
|
|
Cookie value from client browser request. |
|
Single character that specifies the whether or not a connection was terminated before a response was completed. This field is intended for end-user performance monitoring.
|
|
Date before OracleAS Web Cache received the first byte of the request, in the following format:
|
|
Date when OracleAS Web Cache sent the last byte of the response, in the following format:
|
|
ID of the specified in
See Also: "Oracle-ECID Request-Header Field" |
|
ESI fragment log message from the
The log message only displays for requested ESI fragments in the |
|
Boolean character that specifies whether or not OracleAS Web Cache created the
|
|
Login user name of the client. OracleAS Web Cache is unable to obtain the value for this field. Therefore, OracleAS Web Cache displays a hyphen ( |
|
Origin server or cache cluster member that OracleAS Web Cache is forwarding the request, in the following format:
|
|
Single character that specifies if the origin server timed out on a request. The character is reported as one of the following:
|
|
Protocol and version from client request, in the following format:
|
|
Request line, in the following format:
Example: |
|
Request type. Request type is reported as one of the following:
|
|
Time, in seconds (including microseconds), that OracleAS Web Cache spent communicating with the origin server or peer cache. The time is the duration between the following two points of time:
This field is particularly helpful in providing time information for End-User Performance Monitoring. |
|
Time that OracleAS Web Cache sent the last byte of the response, in the following format:
|
|
The difference between the times the client initiates a new connection and the time at which OracleAS Web Cache receives the first byte of the HTTP request. Note: Select this field only if instructed by Oracle Support Services. |
|
The difference between the times OracleAS Web Cache receives the first and last byte of the HTTP request. This field indicates the time in reading the browser requests. Note: Select this field only if instructed by Oracle Support Services. |
|
The difference between the times OracleAS Web Cache sends the first and last byte of the HTTP request to the origin server. This field indicates the time taken in sending the request to the origin server. Note: Select this field only if instructed by Oracle Support Services. |
|
The difference between the times OracleAS Web Cache receives the first and last byte of the HTTP response from the origin server. This field indicates the time taken in receiving the response from the origin server. Note: Select this field only if instructed by Oracle Support Services. |
|
The difference between the times OracleAS Web Cache sends the first and last byte of the HTTP response to the browser. This field indicates the time taken in sending the response to the client. Note: Select this field only if instructed by Oracle Support Services. |
|
The difference between when a request was blocked and unblocked due to a cache update. If a request has already been sent to the origin server by OracleAS Web Cache to update an existing object, OracleAS Web Cache blocks all subsequent requests. Note: Select this field only if instructed by Oracle Support. |
|
The difference between when a request is queued and dequeued for the origin server. This field indicates the time a request spends in OracleAS Web Cache backend queue for an origin server (due to the maximum origin server capacity being reached) before the request is sent to the origin server for processing. Note: Select this field only if instructed by Oracle Support. |
|
Time before OracleAS Web Cache received the first byte of the request, in the following format:
|
Table 15-7 lists examples of HTTP/1.1 headers that can be used for the cs(
header_name
)
and sc(
header_name
)
fields. This table lists only some of the possible headers. It is not an exhaustive list.
Table 15-8 lists examples of cookie-related headers that can be used for the cs(
header_name
)
and sc(
header_name
)
fields.
Table 15-9 lists examples of OracleAS Web Cache headers that can be used for the cs(
header_name
)
and sc(
header_name
)
fields.
To configure the access log settings with Application Server Control Console, navigate to Web Cache Home page > Administration tab > Properties > Logging.
See Also: "Configuring Access Logs" in Enterprise Manager Online Help for instructions |
To establish access log configuration settings with OracleAS Web Cache Manager:
In the navigator frame, select Logging and Diagnostics > Access Logs.
Specify cache-specific access log settings:
From the Cache-Specific Access Log Configuration table, select a cache, and then click Edit Selected.
The Edit Cache-Specific Access Log Configuration dialog box appears.
In the Directory field, enter the directory in which to write access logs.
The default is $ORACLE_HOME/webcache/logs
on UNIX and ORACLE_HOME
\webcache\logs
on Windows.
In the Enabled field, select Yes to enable logging, or No to disable logging.
In the Buffering field, select Enabled to enable buffered logging or Disabled to disable buffered logging.
With buffered logging, OracleAS Web Cache writes to the access log after the buffer is full. The buffer size is set to 2048 bytes. When the limit is reached, OracleAS Web Cache writes buffered events to the access log file.
Oracle recommends disabling buffering when you need to see the access log results immediately.
If buffering is enabled, in the Flush Interval field, enter the maximum threshold, in seconds, when contents of the buffer are written to the access log file.
The default is 10 seconds. When the maximum threshold is reached, OracleAS Web Cache writes buffered information to the access log file. Even if the buffer is not full, the access log is updated at least every 10 seconds. Oracle recommends not changing the default, unless you need to lower the interval to see results more frequently.
Click Submit.
Specify site-specific log settings:
From the Site-Specific Access Log Configuration table, click Add.
The Edit/Add Site Specific Access Log Configuration dialog box appears.
From the For Site list, select the Web site for which to specify access log settings.
In the File Name field, enter a name for the access log file.
The default file name is access_log
.
In the Enabled field, select Yes to enable logging for the site or No to disable logging for the site.
Site-specific logging only takes effect if logging is enabled for the cache. If you select Yes, ensure that Yes is also selected for the cache in Step 2c.
In the ESI Fragment Requests field, select Log to log the ESI fragment log messages from the log
element of <esi:environment>
or <esi:include
> in the access_log_file
.fragment
file.
If the x-esi-info
field is selected, select Log to log the events to the access_log_file
.fragment
file. The x-esi-info
field is automatically selected if the Format Style is End-User Performance Monitoring Format. If the x-esi-info
field is not selected, select Don't Log.
From the Format Style list, select an access log format.
From the Rollover Policy list, select a rollover policy to specify how often you want to change the frequency at which OracleAS Web Cache saves current log information to access_log_file
.
yyyymmdd_hhmm
and writes future log information to a new log file with the configured log file name.
For high-volume sites, select a policy with a high frequency.
Click Submit.
If the default formats are not suitable for your environment, create a log format that is:
From the User-Defined Log Formats table, click Add.
The Edit/Add User-Defined Access Log Format dialog box displays.
In the Format Name field, enter a unique name for the format.
From the Separator list, select the separator to use for separating access log fields.
In Print XLF Directive field, select Yes to include XLF directive information at the top of the access log or No to not include directive information in the access log.
Directive information typically consists of version, date, and field information. For example:
#Version: 1.0 #Date: 12-Jul-2005 00:00:00 #Fields: c-ip x-auth-id x-clf-date cs(Host x-req-line sc-status bytes
In the XLF Fields section, select an access log field name from the Field name list.
If you selected field cs(
header_name
)
, sc(
header_name
)
, or x-cookie(
cookie_name
)
, then enter the header or cookie name in the Header/Cookie name field.
See Also: Table 15-7, Table 15-8, and Table 15-9 for a description of the headers allowed forcs( header_name ) and sc( header_name )
|
Click Add.
Perform Steps e and f for each format you want in the access log, and then use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to order the fields. The order in which fields are entered determines the order in which the fields are logged.
Click Submit.
Optionally, modify or create rollover policies:
Select an existing policy and click Edit Selected to modify and existing rollover policy, or click Add to create a new policy.
The Edit/Add Access Log Rollover Policy dialog box appears.
In the Rollover Policy Name field, enter a unique name for the rollover policy.
In Rollover Policy section, select Weekly, Daily, Hourly, or Never to specify how often you want OracleAS Web Cache to save current log information to access_log_file.yyyymmdd_hhmm
and write future log information to a new log file with the configured log file name.
Table 15-10 describes additional configuration instructions for Weekly, Daily, and Hourly.
Table 15-10 Configuring Weekly, Daily and Hourly Rollover Policies
Policy | To configure: |
---|---|
Weekly |
|
Daily |
|
Hourly |
|
If you have a high-volume site, create a daily or hourly policy.
See Also: "Rolling Over Event and Access Logs" for instructions on immediately rolling over log files |
Click Submit.
Apply changes and restart OracleAS Web Cache:
In the OracleAS Web Cache Manager main window, choose Apply Changes.
In the Cache Operations page, choose Restart.
Logging Cache Cluster Peer Requests
By default, peer requests between two members of a cache cluster are not logged in the access log. Only client requests to the cluster are logged. Peer request logging can be enabled for individual cache cluster members by adding the ACCESSLOGIGNOREPEERREQUEST
attribute to the MISCELLANEOUS
element in the internal.xml
configuration file.
The valid values for this attribute are: YES
and NO
.
The following example shows the MISCELLANEOUS
element with peer-to-peer logging enabled:
<MISCELLANEOUS ACCESSLOGIGNOREPEERREQUEST="NO"/>
The following code shows an excerpt of an access log file:
10.10.150.35 - - [25/Jul/2005:10:27:42 -0500] "GET /~user/personal.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 2438 10.10.150.35 - - [25/Jul/2005:10:27:54 -0500] "GET /~user/personal.htm?UserName=Bob HTTP/1.1" 200 2438 10.10.150.35 - - [25/Jul/2005:10:47:30 -0500] "GET /~user/count.sh HTTP/1.1" 403 289 10.10.150.35 - - [25/Jul/2005:10:47:34 -0500] "GET /~user/sbin/count.sh HTTP/1.1" 200 321
In the first line of the output, the fields have the following meaning:
10.10.150.35
is the browser's IP address (c-ip
)
[25/Jul/2005:10:27:42 -0500]
is the date ([x-clf-date]
)
"GET /~user/personal.htm HTTP/1.1
"
is the request line ("x-req-line"
)
200
is the HTTP status code (sc-status
)
2438
is the size of the object sent (bytes
)
This section contains the following access log examples:
Except where noted otherwise, the access log examples use the CLF format:
c-ip x-log-id x-auth-id x-clf-date x-req-line sc-status bytes
Example: Access Log with Reload Entries
The following shows an access log excerpt in which there are two Web browser reloads, followed by two shift reloads, and two more reloads:
10.10.150.35 - - [25/Jul/2005:11:04:24 -0500] "GET /cache.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 250 10.10.150.35 - - [25/Jul/2005:11:04:26 -0500] "GET /cache.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 250 10.10.150.35 - - [25/Jul/2005:11:29:24 -0500] "GET /cache.htm HTTP/1.1" 304 0 10.10.150.35 - - [25/Jul/2005:11:29:25 -0500] "GET /cache.htm HTTP/1.1" 304 0 10.10.150.35 - - [25/Jul/2005:11:29:30 -0500] "GET /cache.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 250 10.10.150.35 - - [25/Jul/2005:11:29:35 -0500] "GET /cache.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 250
The third and forth entries return an HTTP status code of 304, indicating that object has not been modified and does not need to be returned again.
Example: Access Log with Status Code 404 Entry
The following shows an access log excerpt in which OracleAS Web Cache cannot find any objects matching the requested URL /ows-img/chalk.jpg
. This error is indicated by HTTP status code 404.
10.10.150.35 - - [25/Jul/2005:10:49:44 -0500] "GET /pls/coe/find_via_post HTTP/1.1" 200 1119
10.10.150.35 - - [25/Jul/2005:10:49:44 -0500] "GET /ows-img/chalk.jpg HTTP/1.1" 404 284
Example: Access Log in Combined Format
The following shows an access log excerpt in which the combined format is specified:
c-ip x-log-id x-auth-id x-clf-date x-req-line sc-status bytes cs(Referer) cs(User-Agent) 10.10.150.35 - - [25/Jul/2005:20:09:47 +0000] "GET /manual/sections.html HTTP/1.1" 200 -1 "http://www.company.com:80/manual/mod/directive-dict.html#Syntax" "Mozilla/4.78 [ja] (Win98; U)" 10.10.150.35 - - [25/Jul/2005:20:09:50 +0000] "GET /manual/mod/core.html HTTP/1.1" 200 -1 "http://www.company.com:80/manual/sections.html" "Mozilla/4.78 [ja] (Win98; U)" 10.10.150.35 - - [25/Jul/2005:20:10:06 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -1 - "Mozilla/4.78 [ja] (Win98; U)" 10.10.150.35 - - [25/Jul/2005:20:10:14 +0000] "GET /manual/LICENSE HTTP/1.1" 200 -1 "http://www.company.com:80/manual/index.html" "Mozilla/4.78 [ja] (Win98; U)"
Example: Access Log with Site Information
The following shows an access log excerpt in which the following fields are specified:
c-ip x-auth-id x-clf-date cs(Host) x-req-line sc-status bytes
cs(Host)
displays the output of Host
request-header field, which specifies the site information. In this example, requests are sent to OracleAS Web Cache for site www.company.com:80
.
10.10.150.35 - [25/Jul/2005:20:05:51 +0000] "www.company.com:80" "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -1 10.10.150.35 - [25/Jul/2005:20:05:56 +0000] "www.company.com:80" "GET /manual/index.html HTTP/1.1" 200 -1 10.10.150.35 - [25/Jul/2005:20:05:59 +0000] "www.company.com:80" "GET /manual/upgrading_to_1_3.html HTTP/1.1" 200 -1 10.10.150.35 - [25/Jul/2005:20:06:02 +0000] "www.company2.com:80" "GET /manual/mod/mod_dir.html HTTP/1.1" 200 -1 10.10.150.35 - [25/Jul/2005:20:06:05 +0000] "www.company2.com:80" "GET /manual/mod/directive-dict.html HTTP/1.1" 200 -1
Example: Access Log with ESI Diagnostic Information
The following shows an access log excerpt in which the following fields are specified:
c-ip x-clf-date x-req-line sc-status bytes
x-cache-detail
x-cache-detail
displays diagnostic information. In the following example:
T
means that this request is for an ESI template
H
means that this request resulted in cache hit
max-age=10+15
means that the object is to expire in 10 seconds from population and to be removed from the cache 15 seconds from the expiration. This provides a total of 25 seconds from population.
age=0
means that 0 seconds have passed since population of the cache, meaning there is 10 seconds to expiration and 15 seconds to removal
[25/Jul/2005:02:35:37 +0000] "GET /cgi-bin/esi-headers.sh?err1.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 42 TM;max-age=10+15;age=0
Example: Access Log with ESI Log Information
The following shows an access log excerpt in which the following fields are specified:
c-ip x-clf-date x-req-line sc-status bytes x-esi-info
x-esi-info
displays log information from the log
element of <esi:environment>
or <esi:include
> tags.
[25/Jul/2005:03:03:35 +0000] "GET /b.html HTTP/1.0" 200 4 "This is a sample fragment."
In addition to configuring event and access log rollover frequency, you can also use OracleAS Web Cache Manager to immediately roll over event and access logs. During the rollover process, OracleAS Web Cache saves current information to log_file.
yyyymmdd_hhmm
and writes future log information to a new log file with the configured log file name.
To immediately roll over log files:
To immediately roll over log files with Application Server Control Console, navigate to Web Cache Home page > Administration tab > Operations > Rollover Log Files.
See Also: "Rolling Over Log Files" in Enterprise Manager Online Help for instructions |
To immediately roll over log files with OracleAS Web Cache Manager:
In the navigation pane, select Operations > On-Demand Log File Rollover.
To roll over event log files:
From the Event Logs table, select an individual cache, or click Select All to select all the caches.
Click Submit.
To roll over access log files:
From the Access Logs table, select an access log for a configured site, or click Select All to select all the access logs.
Click Submit.