Common log settings for Content Search Services Support
The log, trace, and timing options for IBM® Content Collector P8 Content Search Services Support are common to all of the configured source document preprocessors and when enabled apply to all documents that are preprocessed by Content Search Services Support.
Because logging and tracing cannot be enabled separately for email, IBM Connections, or Microsoft SharePoint documents, the log files can contain a mix of all source documents and can become very large. To prevent having to monitor the errors of all configured source document types at the same time, enable logging and tracing only when one task route for one source document is being processed by Content Search Services Support.
- Log level:
- Information: writes log information to the log file in the specified
log file location.
Log files use timestamps in their names. You should keep to the default timestamp for the log file names so that there is a new set of log files each time the Content Search Services Support run.
- Trace: write detailed trace information to the log files. The log file names containing trace information also use timestamps in the file names.
- Off: disables logging and tracing.
- Number of trace files: specifies the number of trace files that is generated. By default, only one trace file containing all the trace information is generated.
- Size limit in MB: indicates the maximum size of a trace file in megabytes. As soon as the generated trace file reaches the specified size, a new trace file is created. The default size is 0 which means that there is no file size limit.
- Information: writes log information to the log file in the specified
log file location.
- Log file location: specifies the logging
directory to which the Content Search Services Support log
files are written. The default directory is ./log (The
log subdirectory where IBM Content Search Services is
installed).The log and trace files that are created by Content Search Services Support use the following naming convention:
- ContentCollector_yyyymmdd_hhmm.system.log
- ContentCollector_yyyymmdd_hhmm.trace.log
If timing is enabled, Content Search Services Support writes timing information to the log files. Timing information will only be written to log files if logging is enabled.