BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide

Logging server activity

BusinessObjects Enterprise allows you to log specific information about BusinessObjects Enterprise web activity. For details on locating and customizing the web activity logs, see Configuring the Web Component Adapter.

• In addition, each of the BusinessObjects Enterprise servers is designed to log messages to your operating system's standard system log.On Windows NT/2000, BusinessObjects Enterprise logs to the Event Log service. You can view the results with the Event Viewer (in the Application Log).
• On UNIX, BusinessObjects Enterprise logs to the syslog daemon as a User application. Each server prepends its name and PID to any messages that it logs.

  This example shows two messages logged to the syslog daemon on UNIX:

   

Each server also logs assert messages to the logging directory of your product installation. The programmatic information logged to these files is typically useful only to Business Objects support staff for advanced debugging purposes. The location of these log files depends upon your operating system:

• On Windows, the default logging directory is C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 11.5\Logging
• On UNIX, the default logging directory INSTALL_ROOT/bobje/logging directory of your installation.

The important point to note is that these log files are cleaned up automatically, so there will never be more than approximately 1 MB of logged data per server.