Accessing the Configuration Manager log files

Configuration Manager generates task execution messages, log files for each task, and a log file for diagnosing Configuration Manager errors.

• When you run a task in the Configuration Manager graphical user interface, the task execution messages are displayed in the console pane. When you run the task in the command-line interface, the messages are written in the command window.
• In the Content Platform Engine Task View of the graphical user interface, you can view additional status in the console by right-clicking the task and then selecting Check Task Status. See Checking the task status for details. In the command-line interface, use the checkstatus command within configmgr_cl to determine the status of each task. For example, to determine the deployment status, run this command:

  configmgr_cl checkstatus -profile profile_name -task deployapplication

• The log file for each Configuration Manager task that you execute is located in the temporary directory that you specified for the task. For example, the configureldap task puts two files into the ce_install_path/tools/configure/tmp directory:

  Log file	Description
  configureldap.tcl	The running version of the script
  configureldap.log	The details log file

• The .log file contains additional information for diagnosing Configuration Manager errors. The path to the file depends on the platform:

  Platform	Path
  AIX®, Linux®, Linux on System z®	user_home_directory/configmgr_workspace_26.0.0/.metadata/configmgr-gui.log user_home_directory/configmgr_workspace_26.0.0/.metadata/configmgr-silent.log
  Windows	user_home_directory\configmgr_workspace_26.0.0\.metadata\configmgr-gui.log user_home_directory\configmgr_workspace_26.0.0\.metadata\configmgr-silent.log

  The following examples show the log file paths:

  • On Windows, the path might be C:\Users\Administrator\configmgr_workspace_26.0.0\.metadata\configmgr-gui.log
  • On Linux, the path might be /root/configmgr_workspace_26.0.0/.metadata/configmgr-gui.log
• You can customize the log file location and logging levels by editing the cmlogging.properties file that is located in CCX_INSTALLATION_DIRECTORY\tools\configure\configuration\cmlogging.properties. The properties file contains separate configuration sections for GUI logger and silent logger.

  To set a custom location for the log files, specify the log.parent.directory property. This property defines the parent directory where the log files are created. If you do not specify this property, the log files are created in the default location shown in the table above.

  To set the logging levels, use the gui.logger.level and silent.logger.level properties. You can set the logging level to ALL, FINEST, FINER, FINE, CONFIG, INFO, WARNING, SEVERE, or OFF.