Sun Microsystems 2005Q2 Server User Manual


 
Examining the Log File
Application Server instances and the Domain Administration Server produce
annotated logs on the le system. By default, all errors, warnings or useful informative
messages are logged.
To View the Domain Administration Server Log File
1. From the Common Tasks list in the right pane, click Search Log Files to launch a
new browser window for Log Viewer.
2. In the Log Viewer window, select serverfrom the Instance Name dropdown
list and click Search.
The Domain Administration Servers recent log le entries are displayed.
3. Scan the messages and look for any WARNING or SEVERE messages indicating
that problems were encountered during server start-up.
You can close Log Viewer at any time. After you create clusters and deploy
applications, examine log les if any of the operations failed. Use Log Viewer to
view the log les of any running Application Server instance in the domain.
For more information about the log le, see Chapter 16, Conguring Logging,in
Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.1 2005Q2 Administration
Guide.
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