Re: Logging problem
Arved Sandstrom wrote:
Martin Gregorie wrote:
That is a disadvantage of using desktop Windows, which doesn't believe in
logs.
Come, come, Martin, desktop Windows isn't quite so bad. :-) Windows
events go into the Application log, the Security log or the System log
and are what we see through the Event Viewer.
Arved's answering your question: these are examples you can see, Novice.
It's quite decent logging actually, although the utility of the
Application log is determined entirely by what applications choose to
write to Windows events.
This is rather the point of understanding logs from the reader's standpoint.
It's an exercise in projective empathy. You have to project yourself into a
future and identify with some poor shnook who has to suss out what's going on,
and why, with a shrieking customer and nothing to go on but log output and too
much coffee, and you have to care.
As a sidenote, log4j and log4net, among other frameworks, can write to
Windows events.
I don't know whether Windows Server uses them, so the best I can do
is suggest that, if you have a suitable box [1], you put one of the Linux
flavours[2] on it, have a play with it and then take a look at the files
in /var/log/ with "less".
[SNIP/REARRANGE]
Novice wrote:
Lew wrote:
Have you looked at any real system's logs?
No.
You should.
I agree. Can you point me to any? I don't have any.
I wonder what a Google search might reveal. Hmm, let me see, I wonder ...
(imagination running wild)
Could it be ...
<http://lmgtfy.com/?q=example+log+output>
?
From that:
[09/03/2004 21:59:18.060 GMT]
fadef4b T:
com.ibm.mm.beans.CMBConnection
CMBConnection.connect() entered.
[09/03/2004 21:59:18.070 GMT] fadef4b T:
com.ibm.mm.beans.CMBConnection
CMBConnection._createNewDS() entered.
[09/03/2004 21:59:18.070 GMT] fadef4b
T: com.ibm.mm.beans.CMBConnection
CMBConnection._createNewDS()
=>datastore className=
com.ibm.mm.sdk.server.DKDatastoreICM
[09/03/2004 21:59:18.310 GMT] fadef4b
T: com.ibm.mm.beans.CMBConnection Args[0]
is null, no arg constructor called for
com.ibm.mm.sdk.server.DKDatastoreICM
[09/03/2004 21:59:18.430 GMT] fadef4b
T: com.ibm.mm.beans.CMBConnection
CMBConnection._createNewDS()=>
datastore created with args=null
[09/03/2004 21:59:18.430 GMT] fadef4b
T: com.ibm.mm.beans.CMBConnection
CMBConnection.connect()=>
com.ibm.mm.CMBConnection[connection
type=0,clientURLObj=null,csURLObj=null,
serviceConnectionType=0,serviceClientURLObj=null,
serviceCsURLObj=null,dataManagementEnabled=true,
schemaManagementEnabled=
true,workflowDataManagementEnabled=true,dsType=
ICM,serverName=icmnlsdb,portNo=0,
servicePortNo=0,RMIHostname=,
serviceRMIHostname=,
userid=icmadmin,isConnected=false]
[09/03/2004 21:59:18.430 GMT] fadef4b
T: com.ibm.mm.beans.CMBConnection
Connecting to server.
Please wait...
[09/03/2004 21:59:22.486 GMT]
fadef4b
T:com.ibm.mm.beans.workflow.CMBWorkFlowDataManagement
<http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cmgmt/v8r3m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.troubleshooting.doc%2Ffrnm2mst21.htm>
--
Lew
Isn't that special?