Working with PeopleSoft Server Process Logs

For each PeopleSoft server process, such as PSAPPSRV, the system writes an individual log file to your specified logs directory. Depending on the logging level, these log files can contain varying amounts of information. Reviewing these log files regularly can help you to identify potential issues or system trends, and they are a valuable source of information when troubleshooting. The PIA and application domain logs include correlation fields, such as SRID, TOP Instance ID, and Operator ID that enable you to correlate log files across multiple domains when troubleshooting. To understand the log information, it is helpful to be able to identify the various log fields that the system writes to an individual line in the log file.

Note: Correlation data is logged when available, otherwise placeholders (hyphen) are used in place of correlation fields to maintain uniformity of format in the log files.

Note: Integration Broker, trace, and third-party log files do not include correlation information. However, all log files include placeholders (hyphen) for the correlation fields to maintain uniformity of format in the log files.

A typical log file contains these log fields:

[Server Process]:[Operating System Process ID] [Service Request Number] [Timestamp] [SRID] [TOP Instance ID] [Operator ID] [Log Level] [Message]

The following table provides examples of content for each trace field.

Server Process:PID

Service Request

Timestamp

*(YYYY-MM-DDTHH-MM-SS-sss)

SRID

TOP Instance ID

Oper-ator ID

Log Level

Message

PSAPPSRV.5648

(993)

[2012-12-12T11:54:23.778]

-

-

-

(3)

Authenticate User not needed. New User Id/Password same as current.

PSAPPSRV.5648

(1000)

[2012-12-12T11:54:26.198]

-

-

-

(0)

Recycling server after 1000 services

PSAPPSRV.28708

(0)

[2012-12-12T11:54:35.514]

-

-

-

(0)

Cache Directory being used: D:\PT_SERVER\appserv\T1B85301\CACHE\PSAPPSRV_1\

PSAPPSRV.28708

(0)

[2012-12-12T11:54:38.339]

-

-

-

(0)

Server started

PSAPPSRV.24208

(1344)

[2015-07-14T00:28:15.317]

17F2TbFWJw69UXCzfobVhZ

455266533594

QEDMO

(3)

-

* Where YYYY = year, MM = month, DD = day, HH = hour, MM = minute, SS = seconds, and sss = milliseconds.

You can select how you prefer to separate the trace fields using the [Domain Settings] LogFieldSeparator setting.