Limitations of the Log and Trace Analyzer

Limitations of monitoring a WebSphere Application Server V5 and V6 Activity log on Linux

When monitoring a binary activity log on UNIX platforms using the Generic Log Adapter, the user launching the process must have equal or greater privileges than the installer of WebSphere Application Server to allow this file to be copied. Otherwise, running the showlog process throws the following exception:

 com.ibm.ejs.ras.RasException: Exception copying shared log file

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