Non-WLS client VMs using NonCatalogLogger

Question

Hi All-
I've been playing around with the weblogic.logging.NonCatalogLogger. It works great. I'm even able to filter by subsystem when browsing the log file from the Administration Console. I have a couple of questions, though:
1.. How can I get a client VM to use the NonCatalogLogger and to have its messages sent to the server's log file? I'm able to instantiate the class, but using it results in no output. The JavaDoc for the class says that this will be possible, but it's not immediately apparent. Any suggestions?
2.. I understand that you set a "severity level" of the StdOut in the Administration Console. The default output setting doesn't output any messages in the Debug level. I know this may sound silly, but is there a way to force the console output of a message that is in the Debug level if the current output setting is for a much higher severity level? For instance, I would like to leave my default StdOut filter to be Critical, but I would like to have all messages of any severity for "MySubsystem" to be printed out to the console. Any suggestions here?
Thanks,
Tyler
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Answer 1

Tyler,
A client VM cannot log to the server logfile. A client creates its own logfile. By default the logfile is turned off, for clients. The logging properties of clients are configured via java system properties - weblogic.log.<attributeInLogMBean>=value. So to turn logging on use "-Dweblogic.log.FileName=client.log". The version of the javadoc you have seen, may not be uptodate.
StdoutSeverityLevel and StdoutDebugEnabled are orthogonal to each other.
The only filter criteria supported in Haleakala for messages printed to stdout is SeverityLevel.
Tyler Jewell <[email protected]> wrote in message news:3a1e9666$[email protected]..
Hi All-
I've been playing around with the weblogic.logging.NonCatalogLogger. It works great. I'm even able to filter by subsystem when browsing the log file from the Administration Console. I have a couple of questions, though:
1.. How can I get a client VM to use the NonCatalogLogger and to have its messages sent to the server's log file? I'm able to instantiate the class, but using it results in no output. The JavaDoc for the class says that this will be possible, but it's not immediately apparent. Any suggestions?
2.. I understand that you set a "severity level" of the StdOut in the Administration Console. The default output setting doesn't output any messages in the Debug level. I know this may sound silly, but is there a way to force the console output of a message that is in the Debug level if the current output setting is for a much higher severity level? For instance, I would like to leave my default StdOut filter to be Critical, but I would like to have all messages of any severity for "MySubsystem" to be printed out to the console. Any suggestions here?
Thanks,
Tyler
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