Adding, Editing and Removing Log Formatters

Each log destination type can print messages in different formats: TraceFormatter, XMLFormatter, and ListFormatter. This procedure describes how you manage log formatters using the Config Tool.

More information: Formatter.

Note Note

You can configure and manage formatters for existing destinations only.

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Prerequisites

Start the Config Tool by double-clicking the configtool script file in <SAP_install_dir>/<system_name>/<instance_name>/j2ee/configtool directory.

Procedure

Adding a New Formatter

Choose cluster <template_name> log configuration formatters .
Select any formatter from the tree and then choose New.
A dialog box appears.
Specify the name of the new formatter.
Choose OK.
The new formatter appears in the Formatters tree.

Editing a Formatter

From the Formatters tree, select the formatter you want to edit.
From the Type dropdown box, specify the formatter type.
You can choose from the default ones:
- ListFormatter – formats a log record that can be transferred to and processed further by another application (for example, by Log Viewer).
- TraceFormatter – a human readable format. You can specify a pattern to this format. If you do not specify such, a default one is created.
- XMLFormatter – formats log records as XML elements.
Choose the Pattern field to configure the formatter.

Note

For the TraceFormatter you can make configuration, using a custom formatting pattern. The pattern enables you to specify the message data fields, with placeholders of the form %[[-]<width>[-]]<type>.

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Choose (Apply Changes).

Removing a Formatter

From the Formatters tree, select the formatter you want to remove.
Choose Remove.
Choose (Apply Changes).

Note

You can remove only formatters created by you.

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