General Notes About Tracing Adapters

When you enable tracing for an adapter, you must identify the methods that you want to trace by typing:

com.waveset.adapter.sample.MyResourceAdapter

You must also provide calls to create log entries for any new methods in your custom resource adapter so the adapter can write its resource settings to a log file.

In some cases, you can specify additional logging parameters for the resource instance, such as:

• Maximum Log Archives

• Maximum Active Log Age

• Log File Path

• Maximum Log File Size

• Log Level

• To further debug the synchronization process, you can configure synchronization logging for an ActiveSync adapter. Instructions are provided in the Identity Manager online help.

• Tracing custom Java code can be useful when you are writing your own resource adapter. See Tracing Custom Code for more information.

• You can instrument code with trace points to help assess and resolve problems more effectively. See Instrumenting Code with Trace Points for more information.

• For more information about tracing specific adapter methods, see the Sun Identity Manager 8.1 Resources Reference.