Web Service Logging and Tracing

Use

Logging administration is available for each Web service and Web service client that is deployed and running on the J2EE Engine.

Activities

The Web Services Container service in the Visual Administrator displays the location value of the Web service, as this location corresponds to the name of the created log controller during the Web service start process.

To view the log controller name, choose Web Services Container ® Web Services ® Overview ® Web Service Location Name.

Select Log Configurator Service and in the displayed simple mode, you can see the Locations and Categories views. Select To advanced mode to view the other two tabs – Destinations and Formatters. Browse through the Log Controllers tree in the Locations view to find the Web services log controller. Select com ® sap ® engine ® services ® webservices.

Selecting a controller provides you information of the current logging level, the associated destination, and general logging data. You can modify the logging level by selecting a different value in the Severity drop-down menu.

If you choose the Debug severity level, then the content of the Web service request and response is also logged. Nevertheless, we do not recommend that you set this option because it decreases the performance of the server.

You can also browse the list of Log Destinations to see or modify some of the following features:

·        Type – specifies the type of the logs – ConsoleLog or FileLog

·        Pattern – specifies the path to the file where FileLogs are stored

·        Limit – specifies the limit of the file size

·        Count – the files count for each log cycle

 

See also:

Logging