Monitoring server instances

You can monitor and log the status and activity of both the Impact Server and the GUI Server.

The server log contains status, debugging, and error messages generated during runtime. The log file, impactserver.log, is located in the $IMPACT_HOME/logs directory.

When the log file reaches 10 MB in size the contents of the log are copied to a backup file and a new, empty copy of the file is created. Backup log files are named impactserver.log.n, where n is an index number that identifies the file. When the maximum number of backup files is reached (by default, three) the oldest file (for example, impactserver.log.3) is deleted and the other two files are renamed so that the oldest copy always has the largest index number of all of the files.

You can customize the logging properties by modifying the contents of the impactserver.log4j.properties and impactgui.log4j.properties properties files, that are located in the $IMPACT_HOME/etc directory.