Trace logging

Trace logs are used to capture information about the operating environment when component software fails to operate as designed.

The principal log type is the RAS (Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability) trace log. These logs are in the English language only. The RAS trace log mechanism is available for all components of IBM Tivoli Monitoring. Most logs are in a logs subdirectory on the host computer.

Note: The documentation refers to the RAS facility in IBM Tivoli Monitoring as "RAS1."

IBM® Software Support personnel use the information captured by trace logging to trace a problem to its source or to determine why an error occurred. All components in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment have a default tracing level. The tracing level can be changed on a per-component level to adjust the type of trace information collected, the degree of trace detail, the number of trace logs to be kept, and the amount of disk space used for tracing.