0.19.1: Message events

Message events are generated by IBM WebSphere Application Server code in response to system events occurring in the application server environment. They are always collected. The administrator can decide whether to look at them.

Message events include, in order of increasing severity:

Audit
Indicates a significant event that must be recorded. Are shown when audit messages are enabled.

Terminate
Indicates that a process has terminated normally (a 0 is returned to the shell).

Warning
Indicates that a problem has occurred that must be fixed to prevent a more serious problem. Are shown when warning messages are enabled.

Error
Indicates that a severe error occurred, but did not cause processing to terminate

Fatal
Indicates that a process has encountered a fatal error and has terminated abnormally. When a process terminates in this way, the trace service writes its internal ring buffer to the Serious Error file and returns a -1 to the shell.