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Re: Domain Log viewer url

From: Jan Luehe <Jan.Luehe_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:35:27 -0700

Hi Pavneet,

On 10/21/08 06:08 PM, Kedar Mhaswade wrote:
> It's intriguing why alternate docroot does not work. Jan -- do you know?
> Maybe you need to deploy an application and then Request with have enough
> information to be able to serve it from alt docroot? I don't know.
>
> Also, I think you can file an RFE against admin console to better assist
> you in defining alternate docroots. As you can see, it does have a
> property
> sheet, but you need to know the exact syntax for the alt docroot
> specification.
>
> Regards,
> Kedar
>
> Pavneet Kaur wrote:
>> We need to monitor the logs via Site Scope and/or Load runner. These
>> tools directly hit the log files but our remote so cannot access via
>> the file system.
>> Other alternative was to change the docroot but I haven't had much
>> success with that either. I tried setting the domain.xml but no change:
>>
>> <virtual-server hosts="${com.sun.aas.hostName}"
>> http-listeners="http-listener-1,http-listener-2" id="server"
>> log-file="${com.sun.aas.instanceRoot}/logs/server.log" state="on">
>> <property name="docroot"
>> value="${com.sun.aas.instanceRoot}/docroot"/>
>> <property name="alternatedocroot_1" value="from=/logs/*
>> dir=${com.sun.aas.instanceRoot}"/>
>> <property name="accesslog"
>> value="${com.sun.aas.instanceRoot}/logs/access"/>
>> <property name="sso-enabled" value="false"/>
>> </virtual-server>

Can you please check this blog

  http://blogs.sun.com/jluehe/entry/alternate_docroots_and_local_resource

and see if it helps?

Thanks,

Jan

>>
>> And the alternate root is not even listed in the asadmin GUI, see below:
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> P
>>
>>
>> Kedar Mhaswade wrote:
>>> Right, doing docroot based copying/linking is fragile.
>>>
>>> I know there is no RBAC in GlassFish admin yet, but I'd like
>>> to know why a non-admin user would like to see server's log files?
>>>
>>> -Kedar
>>>
>>> Pavneet Kaur wrote:
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> Creating a soft link doesn't work either :-(.
>>>>
>>>> p
>>>>
>>>> Jacob Kessler wrote:
>>>>> Since the name of the log files won't change, can you add a link
>>>>> directly to the file?
>>>>>
>>>>> Pavneet Kaur wrote:
>>>>>> Thanks for the response.
>>>>>> We need a web viewer hence a direct url would be useful. I tried
>>>>>> adding a soft link to the logs directory under the docroot for
>>>>>> the domain but that doesn't work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - P
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jacob Kessler wrote:
>>>>>>> The logs are stored as text files in glassfish/domains/{name of
>>>>>>> domain}/logs, though that will only work if you have read access
>>>>>>> to the directory that glassfish is installed in. Failing that,
>>>>>>> you could set up a link to those files from somewhere that you
>>>>>>> can read from.
>>>>>>> Pavneet Kaur wrote:
>>>>>>>> All,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We need a way to be able to view the log files without logging
>>>>>>>> into the asadmin GUI. Is there a direct url to the domain log
>>>>>>>> files?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> P
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