WAS: Diagnose

Diagnostic Data

This paper contains information about the diagnostic data that is available in

WebSphere Application Server V6. It contains information about the location of

the data, how it is collected, and configuration options.

It includes information about the following:

• JVM logs (SystemOut and SystemErr)
• Tr a c i n g
• Collector tool
• First Failure Data Capture (FFDC)
• Process (native) logs
• Service log (activity.log)
• Installation logs
• IBM HTTP Server and plug-in logs and traces
• System management logs
• WebSphere Rapid Deployment logs

 

 

Event type

The event type is a one character field that indicates the type of the message.

The possible values are:

– F - fatal message

– E - error message

– W - warning message

– A - audit message

– I - informational message

– C - configuration message

– D - detail message

– O - message that was written directly to System.out by an application or

internal components

– R - message that was written directly to System.err by the user application

or internal components

– Z - a placeholder to indicate that the type was not recognized