Viewing log files

You can view log messages that the system and collection components write to a common log file. You can also specify filters to view messages of a specific severity level and messages from specific system sessions.

To view log files:

1. Do one of the following actions:
   • To view the log files for a single collection, open the Collections view, locate the collection that you want to monitor, and click Actions > Logging > View log files.
   • To view system-level log files, open the System view, and then open the Log page.
2. In the Log file field, select the log file that you want to view.
   The name of each log file includes the log file type (such as system or a collection name) and the date that the file was created. If more than one log file of the same type is created on the same date, a numeric suffix indicates the order in which the file was created. For example:

   log_file_type_20060526.log (contains the most recent entries on this date)
   log_file_type_20060526.log.1
   log_file_type_20060526.log.2 (contains the oldest entries on this date)
   log_file_type_20060525.log (contains the most recent entries on this date)
   log_file_type_20060525.log.1
   log_file_type_20060525.log.2
   log_file_type_20060525.log.3 (contains oldest entries on this date)

3. To view only messages of specific severity levels, select the appropriate check boxes in the Severity field. For example, to view only the messages that require corrective action, select the check box for Error and clear the check boxes for warning and informational messages.
4. To view only messages from specific sessions, select the appropriate check boxes in the Session field. For example, to view only the messages that were issued during a parsing session, select the check boxes that relate to parsing and clear all other check boxes.
5. Click View log.

   For each message on the Contents of Log File page, you see the date and time that the message was issued, the message severity level, the name of the session that issued the message, and the message ID and error text.

   Specify how many messages are to be displayed on each page. You can click buttons to go to the first page, last page, previous page, or next page of the log file. You can also specify a page number and go directly to that page.

6. To see more detailed information about a message, click Details.

   On the Log Message Details page, you see the host name of the server where the message occurred, the name of the file that produced the error, the function name and line number where the error occurred, the process ID, and the thread ID.

   You can click buttons to move to the next and previous messages in the log file.