Accessing containers from the command line

You can access running MobileFirst Server and MobileFirst Analytics container instances from the command line to obtain logs and traces.

1. Create an interactive terminal within the container instance by running the following command: cf ic exec -it container_instance_id "bash".
2. To locate the log files or traces, use the following command example:

   container_instance@root# cd /opt/ibm/wlp/usr/servers/mfp 
   container_instance@root# vi messages.log

3. To copy the logs to your local workstation, use the following command example:

   my_local_workstation# cf ic exec -it container_instance_id
    "cat" " /opt/ibm/wlp/usr/servers/mfp/messages.log" > /tmp/local_messages.log