Adding, Editing and Removing Log Destinations

This procedure describes how you can manage the destination where the messages are written to. The log destination is also the object, to which you specify and assign a formatter for the log, as well as optional filters.

More information: Log (Destination) .

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 Destination

Choose cluster <template_name> log configuration destinations .
Choose any destination name from the tree and then choose New.
A dialog box appears.
Specify the name of the new destination.
It appears in the Destinations tree.

Editing a Destination

From the Destinations tree, select the destination you want to edit.
Choose the Type dropdown list and specify the destination type.
You can select a default one: FileLog or ConsoleLog.

More information: Log (Destination)
In the Pattern field, specify the path to the file where messages will be written.
In the Limit field, specify the maximum number of bytes each log file can contain.
Choose the Severity dropdown box to specify a severity level.
More information: Appendix A: Severity Levels.
In case your destination is a FileLog type, you can specify whether to be one file, or a rotating number of files.
In the last case, use Count field to specify the number of files. Also, use the Limit field to define in bytes the size of a file from the rotation stack.
In the Formatter field, select a formatter. That is the format in which the log destination will print the messages.
More information: Formatter .
Choose (Apply Changes).

Removing a Destination

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

Note

You can remove only destinations created by you.

End of the note.