Logging Enhancements

Access Manager 7 2005Q4 includes several new logging enhancements:

• New fields (or columns): The MessageID field contains the message identifier for the logged event. The ContextID field contains the context identifier, which is analogous to a session identifier and applies to all events for a particular user's login session. For a user's specific login session, ContextID will be the same in all log files for logged events.

• Logging API. The API includes additions for reading log records, including from a database (DB), when logging to DB is configured. Refer to LogReaderSample.java in the /opt/SUNWam/samples/logging directory, which shows the retrieval of log records from a flat file or DB table repository.

Database tables tend to be larger than flat file logs. Therefore, in a given request, do not retrieve all of the records in a database table, because the quantity of data can consume all of the Access Manager server resources.