Logging Server Messages

This chapter describes the message-logging service provided by Netscape Application Server.

• About the Logging Service
• About Web Server Requests

1. Click the Logging button on the NAS Administrator toolbar to open the Logging window.
2. Select the Enable Server Event Log checkbox as shown in the following figure:

3. In the General area, from the Message Type drop-down box, select Errors, Errors and Warnings, or All Messages.
4. In the Maximum Entries text field, enter the maximum number of entries that can exist before data is written to the log.
5. In the Write Interval text field, enter the amount of time (in seconds) that elapses before data is written to the log.

• date and time the message was created
• message type, such as information, warning, or error
• service or application component ID
• message text

[Date and time of message] Message type: Service ID: Message text 

[11/18/97 11:11:12:0] info (1): GMS-017: server shutdown (host 
0xc0a801ae, port 10818, group 'NAS') - updated host database 

[11/18/97 11:11:18:2] warning (1): GMS-019: duplicate server (host 
0xc0a8017f, port 10818) recognized, please contact Netscape 
Communications for additional licenses 

1. Click the Logging button on the NAS Administrator toolbar to open the Logging window.
2. Select the Enable Server Event Log checkbox.

3. In the Log Target box, choose the type of logging to enable by clicking the Log to a Database, Log to Windows NT Application Log (Errors Only), and/or Log to File checkbox(es). You can disable console logging by deselecting the Log to Console checkbox.

See Logging to a Database in the following section and Logging to a File for more information.

If you chose to log to a file, that file is created now. See Rotating Log Files for information about managing log files.

1. Click the Logging button on the NAS Administrator toolbar to open the Logging window.
2. Select the Enable Server Event Log checkbox as shown in the following figure:

3. In the General area, from the Message Type drop-down box, select Errors, Errors and Warnings, or All Messages.
4. In the Log Target area, click the Log to Database checkbox.

Enter the data source, the database name, the table name, and the user name and password necessary for accessing the database.

5. Click the Apply Changes button to save your changes to NAS Administrator.

1. Click the Logging tab on the NAS Administrator toolbar to open the Logging window.
2. Select the Enable Server Event Log checkbox.
3. In the General area, from the Message Type drop-down box, select Errors, Errors and Warnings, or All Messages.
4. In the Log Target area, select the Log to File checkbox.
5. In the Log to File text field, enter the name of the log file.
6. Click Apply Changes to save your changes to NAS Administrator.

1. Click the Logging button on the NAS Administrator toolbar to open the Logging window.
2. Select the Enable Server Event Log checkbox.

3. In the General area, from the Message Type drop-down box, select Errors, Errors and Warnings, or All Messages.
4. Click the Log to File checkbox.
5. In the Enable File Rotation drop-down box, choose Yes.
6. From the Rotation Interval drop-down box, select the interval at which log files are rotated or enter a string to indicate when the log file is rotated.

For instance, the following string indicates logging to a new file begins at 1:00 AM every Monday, as well as on the fifteenth of each month:

1:0:0 1/15/*

The following string indicates logging to a new file begins at 2:00 AM, 5:00 AM, 6:00 AM, and 7 AM every Friday:

1, 5 - 7:0:05/*/*

7. Click Apply Changes to save your changes to the NAS Administrator.

1. Click the Logging button on the NAS Administrator toolbar to open the Logging window.
2. From the left pane of the Logging window, select the application server responsible for logging web server requests.

If you have more than one application server, you can specify one server to log web server requests.

3. In the right pane of the logging window, click the HTTP Log tab.

The following window appears:



4. Enter httplog in the Data Source field.
5. Enter the information you use to connect to the database in the Database field. For example, this would be the Oracle SID for an Oracle database.
6. In the Table Name field, enter httplog.
7. Enter the user name and passwords with which you connect to the database.Enter the maximum entries.

This number represents the greatest number of entries that can exist before data is written to the log.

8. Enter the write interval.

This number represents the amount of time that lapses before data is written to the log.

9. To enable database logging of web server requests, select Log to a Database.
10. Click Apply Settings to save your changes to your application server.