Configuring CEI server monitoring using the administrative console

Use the administrative console to dynamically specify the monitoring function publish Common Base Events to the Common Event Infrastructure server.

Before you begin

You must enable the diagnostic trace service, just as you would with the logger. After you restart your server you would invoke the events you wish to monitor once, so that they appear on the list of events available for monitoring.

Why and when to perform this task

This method of selecting events for monitoring is used for applications that have already been deployed on a process server. Events that are specified in a .mon file that is deployed with the application on the process server will be monitored by the Common Event Infrastructure (CEI) database regardless of any changes you make here. For those events, you can only specify a greater level of detail to be captured and published to the CEI database. The output that is published to the CEI database is very similar to that published by loggers.

Steps for this task

  1. In the navigation pane, click Servers > Application Servers.
  2. Click the name of the server that you want to work with.
  3. Under Troubleshooting, click Logging and tracing
  4. Click Change Log Detail levels
  5. The list of components, packages, and groups displays all the components that are currently registered on the running server; only process server events that have been invoked at least once will appear on this list. All process server events that can be logged are listed under one of the components that start with the name WBILocationMonitor.CEI.
    • To make a static change to the configuration, click the Configuration tab.
    • To change the configuration dynamically, click the Runtime tab.
  6. Select an event or group of events to monitor.
  7. Choose the level of detail that you wish to capture for each event.
    Note: Only the levels FINE, FINER, and FINEST are valid for CEI events.
  8. Click Apply, and then Save.
  9. Click OK.
  10. If you made a static change to the configuration, then you will have to restart the process server for the changes to take effect.

Result

You can view the monitored event results in the Common Base Event browser.
Related tasks
Enabling the diagnostic trace service
Viewing events with the Common Base Event browser

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Last updated: Tue Feb 21 17:02:05 2006

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