Configure IDOL Logs

You can configure IDOL Data Admin to generate an idol-access.log file. This log stores information about all the actions it makes to IDOL component ACI and service ports. It includes the following information: 

The log also shows requests that failed without returning a HTTP status code (for example, because the IDOL component was turned off or blocked by a firewall).

You can turn on IDOL logging by setting the idol.log.enabled system property.

When you turn on logging, you can optionally turn off the information about time taken to complete requests by setting the idol.log.timing.enabled system property.

To turn on IDOL logging

To turn off timing information in the IDOL logs

If you run IDOL Data Admin as a service on Windows, you can also add the idol.log.enabled and idol.log.timing.enabled properties to the dataadmin.xml file.

If you run IDOL Data Admin as a service on Linux, you can add the argument to the existing arguments variable in the start scripts (dataadmin.sh for SysV, dataadmin.conf for Upstart, or dataadmin.service for systemd).

When you modify the IDOL Data Admin configuration by modifying the XML file or start scripts, you must restart IDOL Data Admin to apply your configuration changes.

On Upstart, you must also run initctl reload-configuration before you restart, to apply the init file changes. You can then run service dataadmin restart to restart the service.

Use an Action ID

You can optionally configure IDOL Data Admin to send an action ID to IDOL with each request, which can help with tracking and troubleshooting.

When you enable action IDs, IDOL Data Admin generates the action ID with a UUID and a prefix, which you can configure. The default prefix is DataAdmin-. For example, DataAdmin-b17a4a79-b3ed-4706-80a6-06404140e815.

To use an action ID in IDOL requests

If you run IDOL Data Admin as a service on Windows, you can also add the idol.log.actionid.enabled and idol.log.actionid.prefix properties to the dataadmin.xml file.

If you run IDOL Data Admin as a service on Linux, you can add the argument to the existing arguments variable in the start scripts (dataadmin.sh for SysV, dataadmin.conf for Upstart, or dataadmind.service for systemd).

When you modify the IDOL Data Admin configuration by modifying the XML file or start scripts, you must restart IDOL Data Admin to apply your configuration changes.

On Upstart, you must also run initctl reload-configuration before you restart, to apply the init file changes. You can then run service dataadmin restart to restart the service.

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