Logs

Use

This function provides a central access to the logs generated during data archiving. You can call this function from within Archive Administration by choosing Logs or Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step Logs End of the navigation path as well as from Archive Administration.

Features

The following logs are written when an archiving program, such as a preprocessing, write, or delete program, is executed, and can be displayed in this function:

Job Overview

Information on the background jobs of the archiving program
Job Log

Log of the different steps of an individual background job
Spool List

List generated by the archiving program and stored in the spool
Application Log

Log of all processed objects (summarized and detailed)

Job overview, job log, and spool list are generated only by programs that are executed in the background. The application log can be generated for programs that run in the background and in dialog mode.

Note

Whether or not the log of the processed objects is to be updated in the application log, meaning that an application log is generated, can be set in the variant maintenance of the corresponding program in the entry field Log Output. See Variant Maintenance for Archiving Jobs.

Note

Note that not all archiving objects offer the updating of an object log (entry field Detailed Log in variant maintenance).

Log Display

In the log function, the left area of the screen shows the available logs, organized by archiving object, action (for example, preprocessing, write, delete, and so on) date and time. The newest log is highlighted. If cross-archiving-object logs were created, you can view them at the end of the log tree under the entry Cross-Archiving-Object (see below).

Under Process Control, you can see whether the process was started in the test or the productive mode. If the process control could not be determined, the field remains empty.

In the Archiving Session column, you can see the number of the archiving session that was generated by the corresponding program (for write programs) or processed (for example by delete programs). If the session number could not be determined (for example, in preprocessing programs), the field remains empty. In case of reload programs, the Original Session column contains the number of the reloaded session.

Due to technical reasons, the job overview, the job log, and the spool lists can only be displayed as fullscreen.

The Application Log is displayed directly on the right-hand side of the screen. It is used to inform the user about the results of processing the business objects he or she has selected. For example, in the write program the user learns which business objects have been archived and which could not be archived and why.

You use the two tab pages to choose between a summarized and a detailed application log (if available). f detailed information is available for an object, you can display it by using the magnifying glass icon in the Detail column. Click on the question mark icon in the Long Text column to view the message long text. If no application log was created, the relevant message text is displayed. Possible reasons for this are, for example, that the relevant archiving program does not support this function or the user wanted the log output in the list (spool) and not in the application log.

Cross-Archiving-Object Logs

Cross-archiving-object logs are created during the execution of the cross-archiving-object check and delete function. In the log display, these logs appear at the end of the log tree under Cross-Archiving-Object. The logs are sorted by action, date and time of the action, and archiving object. For example, if you want to display the logs of all archiving objects for which the system performed a cross-archiving-object check, expand the Preprocessing node in the tree structure under the above-named heading and double-click the node with the desired date. In the right-hand area of the log display, the application log of the cross-archiving-object check session you have chosen appears. In the summarized view, the log contains a consolidated list of all summarized log messages of the archiving objects included in the check (these are listed as subnodes in the log tree). Due to performance reasons, the detailed messages of the different archiving objects are not included in the detail view.

It is not possible to display information on the next lower level, that is, on archiving object level. When you choose a node (document symbol) below the archiving object, the messages for this particular archiving object are shown in the form of a summary and as detailed information.

Activities

You can limit the display of the logs to one specific archiving object by entering the object in the initial screen of Archive Administration. If you want to access the logs of all archiving objects, you must leave this field empty.
To display the log for a specific log entry, select the entry in the log entries list and with a right mouse click choose the corresponding log, for example, the job log or the application log.
To access only cross-archiving-object logs, first choose Check/Delete in Archive Administration and then Logs.
You can delete selected application logs from the system by choosing Environment Delete Application Logs . This function corresponds to the central delete function of logs using Transaction SLG2, the only exception being that the object ARCHIVING is already entered per default.