Command Line Log Viewer 

Use

You can use the Command Line Log Viewer to display list formatted log and trace files that are written by the SAP Logging API in a human readable format.

The Command Line Log Viewer lv script file is located in the /usr/sap/<System ID>/<Instance number>/j2ee/configtool directory.

Features

You can use the Command Line Log Viewer to display:

●      A single log or trace file

●      All log and trace files from a log directory

●      A particular number of log records from a log or trace file.

Activities

●      To start the Command Line Log Viewer, in the file system, go to the /usr/sap/<System ID>/<Instance number>/j2ee/configtooldirectory and run the lv script file.

●      To display a single log or trace file, execute the following command: lv <Full path to the file including the file name>.

●      To display all log and trace files from a log directory, execute the following command: lv <Path to the directory>.

You can use this command only if all logs and traces in the directory are list formatted.

●      To display only the latest log records as they are written to a particular log or trace file, execute the following command: lv <Full path to the file including the file name> -t.

●      To display all options that are available in the Command Line Log Viewer, execute the following command: lv –h.