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Troubleshooting and problem determination

IBM Integration Designer provides numerous tools to help you troubleshoot problems in your applications, such as the integration debugger and a new Server Logs view that enables you to work with cross-component tracing and server consoles and logs. Specialized tools are also provided that enable you to import IBM WebSphere Business Modeler problem determination archives and troubleshoot problems that occurred when business process models were deployed from IBM WebSphere Business Modeler to a managed deployment environment.

The following topics describe how to use the Server Logs view, integration debugger, and the specialized tools for performing IBM WebSphere Business Modeler problem determination.

• Fixing compilation errors in integration projects
  Refactoring artifacts in IBM Process Designer sometimes causes compilation errors to appear in IBM Integration Designer. These errors occur after you refresh Integration Designer from the repository.
• Error prevention as part of application design
  Including error prevention practices as part of your application design means implementing specific design techniques and using the capabilities of the product to help prevent system and application errors.
• Resolving communication problems with remote servers
  

  If you are having problems communicating with a remote server, such as problems in publishing to the remote server or obtaining the status of the server, it is possible that the server settings or system settings on the remote machine are not correctly set up.

• Performance tuning for IBM Integration Designer
  

  If an application fails to run or cycles for a long time without completing, those situations might be caused by insufficient system memory.

• Use the Server Logs view for problem determination
  In IBM Integration Designer, the Server Logs view is used to display the contents of server consoles and log files. It automatically displays console output for each server that is started, but you can also manually load and display the contents of the console and log files for any server. If you enable cross-component tracing, the Server Logs view will also display invocation records that can contain the invocation data that passed between components. The Server Logs view provides several advantages over the traditional Console view, such as the ability to filter records and display invocation records in hierarchical format.
• Use the integration debugger for problem determination
  In IBM Integration Designer, you can debug modules and several kinds of business integration components using the integration debugger. These components include visual snippets, business object data maps, business processes, state machines, mediation flows, business rule sets, and decision tables. You can also debug XML maps, but you can only debug them within the workspace and not on a server.