Contents of the Application Log

The information in the appname.log file can help you assess:

Table 141 lists the types of actions logged and the information included in the log message.

Table 141. Contents of the Application Log

Type of Action

Information Included

Actions performed at the database level, such as loading data, clearing data, or calculating data

  • User name

  • Date and time

  • Application and database name and time

  • If starting application—Loading Java modules, and reading and writing database and application information

  • If loading databases—Information about dimension sizes, dynamic calculation members, blocks, cache sizes, index page size, and I/O information

  • If starting databases—Application and database setup information, including reading free space information, writing database parameters, retrieving state information, writing application and database definition information, retrieving database volumes, and writing database mapping

  • If loading—Load command, parallel data load information, cells updated, elapsed load time, and the name of the rules file and data file

    Note:

    Essbase supplies the load rule name only if the client making the request (for example, Administration Services) is at the same release level as Essbase; for example, Release 7.0.

  • If calculating—the name of the calculation script used to perform the calculation

  • If reporting—the name of the report script

Actions performed at the outline level, such as restructuring

  • User name

  • Date and time

  • Information about dimension sizes, dynamic calculation members, blocks, cache sizes, index page size, I/O information, and restructure elapsed time

Actions performed at the spreadsheet level, such as lock and send

  • User name

  • Date and time

  • Action performed