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8.2.1: How to view messages

There are three ways to view messages:

Console messages area

The console messages area, located at the bottom of the WebSphere Administrative Console GUI, provides tracing information. The console messages area shows all messages for a given domain. The console messages can be disabled as to not use the facility.

The com.ibm.ws.ras.SeriousEventEnable property allows you to specify whether or not serious events (audit, warning, error, fatal, terminate) are written to the the administrative Database. If writing of serious events to the administrative database is disabled, the corresponding messages will not be available for display in the administrative console.

This property is located in the <install_dir>/properties/logging.properties file. A process must be restarted for the change to take effect.

See the InfoCenter article 6.6.0.1: Using the Java administrative console to learn more information about the messages area.

To view the messages in the console messages area, select the message in the console messages area and click on the details button.

Event viewer

The event viewer maintains a collection of the most recent message events. You can configure the event viewer to show any combination of audit, fatal, terminate, and warning message events. See the InfoCenter article 6.6.0.1: Using the Java administrative console to learn more information about the event viewer.

The property com.ibm.ws.ras.UnitOfWork allows you to specify whether or not a correlation ID should be generated and included in message events and diagnostic trace entries. If set to true, each application client request is assigned a unique identifier that is propagated to all servers touched as part of servicing that request. This allows correlation of events across multiple server processes.

This property is located in the <install_dir>/properties/logging.properties file. A process must be restarted for the change to take effect.

Administrative and application server logs

These logs will show the messages for a given server process. Use your favorite text editor to view these logs. See the Logs section for more information.

Activity log

The activity log will show messages for a given server process. Use the Log Analyzer or the showlog facility to view the messages. See the Logs section for more information.
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