Opening a Remote Log

This topic describes how to access the process engine log through an HTTP or HTTPS connection.

To access the log through HTTP or HTTPS, you must know the URL of the process engine host and you must have the administrator user and password for the process engine on that host.

To open a remote log:

  1. Click File > Open remote log. The Open Remote Log dialog box appears.
  2. Select either http or https from the Protocol drop-down list. Normally you would select http. Https will only work if the host you are connecting to has SSL enabled, and it is not enabled by default.
  3. Enter the URL of the server you wish to connect to in the Host field. Do not enter the protocol here. For example, enter abc.bea.com, not http://abc.bea.com.
  4. Enter the port number in the Port field. The default port for ALBPM 6.0 is 8686, but your particular installation may use a different port.
  5. Click Get Engines (). A dialog box requesting a username and password to access the host will appear.
  6. Enter the user and password in the corresponding fields and click OK. Note that both the user name and password are case-sensitive. The Available Engines list will be populated with the process engines found to be running at the host and port you specified.
  7. Select the engine you wish to see the log of, and click OK.

The process engine log will be displayed in the main Log Viewer window.