Configuring logging properties using the administrative console
Use this task to specify that the monitoring function publish service component events to a logger file.
About this task
- Enable or disable a particular event log.
- Specify the level of detail in a log.
- Specify where log files are stored, how many log files are kept, and a format for log output.
You can change the log configuration statically or dynamically. Static configuration changes affect applications when you start or restart the application server. Dynamic or run time configuration changes apply immediately.
When a log is created, the level value for that log is set from the configuration data. If no configuration data is available for a particular log name, the level for that log is obtained from the parent of the log. If no configuration data exists for the parent log, the parent of that log is checked, and so on, up the tree until a log with a non-null level value is found. When you change the level of a log, the change is propagated to the children of the log, which recursively propagates the change to their children, as necessary.