The Visualizer has two types of log files available to assist users in troubleshooting Visualizer problems or messages: a local log file for each Visualizer client, and log files for the InfoSphere Application Server that hosts the Visualizer.
You can configure the Visualizer to log errors, warnings, and informational messages that occur on your local Visualizer client. Each workstation contains one Visualizer client, so you can determine whether or not to log Visualizer messages by workstation.
By default, Visualizer client logging is turned off. You turn Visualizer logging on or off and select logging settings in the Configure Screen Preferences window on the Log Settings tab.
You determine the directory location of the Visualizer client log file when you turn Visualizer client logging on, by entering the name of the directory or by browsing to an existing directory. The default name of Visualizer client log files is visualizer.log. This file is a text file, that can be viewed using any text editor.
This automatic log file rotation continues each time the current log file reaches its file size limit. As the system rotates log files, it writes over the previous messages in that log file.
The Visualizer relies on the InfoSphere Application Server to communicate with and connect to IBM Relationship Resolution. Web services events are logged in the application server log files, along with the Configuration Console and Web services events, which also rely on the InfoSphere Application Server.
These log files are located in the following directory:
installation_directory/logs/was_ee
InfoSphere Application Server log files are configured by a system administrator on the application server or through the IBM Relationship Resolution configuration utility.