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Ahmed Anwar
Ahmed Anwar

Reputation: 678

Change WebSphere logging level from cofiguration file

I have changed the logging level in my WebSphere Application Server v8.5 from *=info to *=all, and restarted the server from eclipse. The server went down but did not start again, I tried rebooting the machine a couple of times and tried starting/stopping the server from cmd, but nothing worked.

I'm suspecting that it might be due to excessive logging (since I changed the level to all, it might be too much load on the server to start?)

My question is, is there any way to change to logging level back from any configuration or something like that? Since the server did not start so I can't change it back from admin console. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

[EDIT] I checked the logs and found that WebSphere is logging a huge amount of trace logs and that's why the server takes too long to start.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1559

Answers (1)

Jarid
Jarid

Reputation: 2018

The trace specification is defined in server.xml, located within your profile directory in config/cells/(cellname)/nodes/(nodename)/servers/(servername).

For safety's sake, I'd recommend backing up the file first, then open it in an editor and search for "startupTraceSpecification". Swap that from *=all back to *=info, and you should be good to go.

Upvotes: 6

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