Turning traces on and off in servers processes using scripting

You can use scripting to turn traces on or off in server processes.

Before you begin

Before starting this task, the wsadmin tool must be running. See the starting the wsadmin scripting client information.

Perform the following steps to turn traces on and off in server processes:

Identify the object name for the TraceService MBean running in the process:

Using Jacl:

$AdminControl completeObjectName type=TraceService,node=mynode,process=server1,*

Using Jython:

AdminControl.completeObjectName('type=TraceService,node=mynode,process=server1,*')

Obtain the name of the object and set it to a variable:

Using Jacl:

set ts [$AdminControl completeObjectName type=TraceService,process=server1,*]

Using Jython:

ts = AdminControl.completeObjectName('type=TraceService,process=server1,*')

Turn tracing on or off for the server.

To turn tracing on, perform the following step:

Using Jacl:

$AdminControl setAttribute $ts traceSpecification com.ibm.*=all=enabled

Using Jython:

AdminControl.setAttribute(ts, 'traceSpecification', 'com.ibm.*=all=enabled')

To turn tracing off, perform the following step:

Using Jacl:

$AdminControl setAttribute $ts traceSpecification com.ibm.*=all=disabled

Using Jython:

AdminControl.setAttribute(ts, 'traceSpecification', 'com.ibm.*=all=disabled')