Logging and tracing in Portal Search

Enable logging and tracing for Portal Search in order to obtain more information.

Portal Search provides logging and tracing so that we can get additional information for resolving possible problems. The Portal Search messages are divided into the following groups:

Error messages

Error messages inform you about unrecoverable events in Portal Search. Error messages are marked with the ERROR level.

Warning messages

Warning messages inform you about events that are not unrecoverable, but so importand that you should know about them. Warning messages are marked with the WARN level.

Information messages

Information messages help you monitor Portal Search and give you information about what is happening in Portal Search. Information messages can be marked the INFO level.

For information about portal logging and tracing and how to enable logging refer to Logging and tracing and its subtopics, and to the information about Configure logging properties using the WAS admin console in the IBM WAS information center.

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 failurethat 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 failurethat happen during the indexing process.

Enable logging for a remote search configuration

If you have set up Portal Search in a remote configuration on a WAS 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.

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