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Administration Console Log File

When you deploy the Administration Console and subsequently start it, the details of all its actions and processed requests are recorded in the arcotadmin.log file. This information includes:

• Database connectivity information
• Database configuration information
• Instance information and the actions performed by this instance
• UDS configuration information
• Other Administration Console information specified by the Master Administrator, such as cache refresh

The information in this file is very useful in identifying the source of the problems if the Administration Console does not start up. The default location of this file is:

Windows:

<install_location>\Arcot Systems\logs\

UNIX-Based:

<install_location>/arcot/logs/

The parameters that control logging in this file can be configured by using the adminserver.ini file, which is available in the conf folder in ARCOT_HOME.

In addition to the logging level, log file name and path, the maximum log file size (in bytes), and log file archiving information, you can also control the layout of the logging pattern for the console by specifying the appropriate values for log4j.appender.debuglog.layout.ConversionPattern. See section, "Format of UDS and Administration Console Log Files" for the details of the default format used in the file.