CA Configuration Automation Server Installation Log Files

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CA Configuration Automation Server Installation Log Files

You can check the following log files for errors:

cca.log
install.log
install_debug.log
jakarta_service_<install_date>.log
tomcat log

These files are located in the <CCA_Server_install_directory>/logs directory. If you installed in the default directory, they are in the following locations:

(Linux or UNIX) /opt/CA/CCAServer/logs
(Windows) C:\Program Files\CA\CCA Server\logs

Edit the Logging Configuration File to See More Messages

The CA Configuration Automation Server logging configuration file, log4j.xml, controls the type of messages (error, warning, or information) displayed in the server console or log file. You may want to edit the file to view more types of messages than the default setting. The default setting is to send error messages only to a log file:

log4j.rootCategory=ERROR, LOGFILE

If you used the recommended default location to install the CA Configuration Automation Server, the server logging configuration file is located in the following directories:

On Solaris or Linux: /opt/CA/CCAServer/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF
On Windows: C:\Program Files\CA\CCA Server\tomcat\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF

You can modify the log4j.xml file to display other messages as follows:

To display error and warning messages, change the default entry to the following:
```
log4j.rootCategory=WARN, LOGFILE
```
To display error, warning, and informational messages, change the default
entry to the following:
```
log4j.rootCategory=INFO, LOGFILE
```

You can also change or add to the LOGFILE parameter if you want the messages to appear on the console only or in addition to the log file.

To display error messages only on the console, change the default entry to the following:
```
log4j.rootCategory=ERROR, CONSOLE
```
To display error messages both on the console and in the log file, change the default entry to the following:
```
log4j.rootCategory=ERROR, LOGFILE, CONSOLE
```

By default, the messages go to a file called cca.log in the <CCA_Server_Installation_Directory>/logs directory unless you specify a different log file name in the log4j.xml file.