Portal Search trace and log files

Portal Search provides logging and tracing so we can get additional information for resolving possible problems.

Portal Search has the following trace strings:

com.ibm.portal.search

Use to turn on all Portal Search messages.

com.ibm.portal.search.notIndexed

Enable to obtain messages about URLs that are discovered by the crawler but could not be fetched and indexed for different reasons.

com.ibm.portal.search.crawler

Enable to obtain messages about the crawling process.

com.ibm.portal.search.crawler.failure

Enable to obtain messages about failures that happen during a crawl.

com.ibm.portal.search.index

Enable to obtain messages about the indexing process.

com.ibm.portal.search.index.failure

Enable to obtain messages about failures that happen during the indexing process.

Enable logging for a remote search configuration

If we have set up Portal Search in a remote configuration on a WebSphere Application Server server, the log messages are filtered and printed out according to the WAS logging and tracing configuration. In this case refer to the WAS information center.

Parent Portal Search

Related concepts:

Logging and tracing