Log Configuration Parameters in [arcot/admin/logging] Section

log4j.rootCategory

ERROR, roothandle

Important! roothandle is the name of the Administration Console log handle and must be specified.

The root logger that resides at the top of the logger hierarchy. All children loggers inherit this value, if no value is specified.

• log4j.logger.com.arcot.euds
• log4j.logger.com.arcot.admin
• log4j.logger.com.arcot.admin.framework
• log4j.logger.com.arcot.adminconsole
• log4j.logger.com.arcot.common.cache
• log4j.logger.com.arcot.common.crypto
• log4j.logger.com.arcot.crypto.impl.SecureStoreUtil
• log4j.logger.com.arcot.common.database
• log4j.logger.com.arcot.common.ldap

INFO

Specify the log level that must be used to write Administration Console logs. The supported log levels are:

• FATAL
• WARNING
• INFO
• DEBUG

  Note: See CA AuthMinder Administration Guide for more information about the log levels.

log4j.appender.
roothandle.Encoding

UTF-8

The encoding to use when writing the entries in the log file.

log4j.appender.roothandle.File

${arcot.home}/logs/arcotadmin.log

The log file name and the location where the Administration Console logs will be created.

By default, the Administration Console log file name is arcotadmin.log and is created in the following location:

<install_location>/arcot/logs/

log4j.appender.roothandle.MaxFileSize

10 MB

The maximum allowed file size of the log file.

log4j.appender.roothandle.MaxBackupIndex

100

The maximum number of backup files that can be created.

When the number of backup files reaches this number, then the application starts to overwrite from the first log file.

log4j.appender.
roothandle.layout

org.apache.log4j.
PatternLayout

The output format, as specified by ConversionPattern.

log4j.appender.
roothandle.layout.
ConversionPattern

%d{yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss,SSS z} : [%t] : %-5p : %-5c{3} : %m%n

The format in which the Administration Console log file entries are written:

• Time Stamp (%d{yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss,SSS z} :)
• Thread ID ([%t] :)
• Log Level (or Severity) (%-5p :)
• Logger Class (%-5c{3} :)
• Message (%m%n)

This pattern is similar to the C language printf function.