Xythos Drive Logs


The tables below are listing all the different type of logs available in Xythos Drive, their related location, purpose, configuration and documentation.

java.util.logging

Documentation The original reference for the Java logging and a useful manual for logging properties file description.
Log type xd
Config file logging.properties is located in the Drive installation directory
Log file name The pattern is xd%u_%u.log - according to the current rotation iteration (rotation count is set in <config file>)
Purpose Storing runtime and environment information, errors, output from stderr and stdout
Log type StatusMonitor
Config file logging.properties located in the Drive installation directory
Log file name The pattern is StatusMonitor.%u.log, StatusMonitor.%u.log.%u
Purpose Information about drive operations shown in the Status monitor

org.apache.log4j

Documentation The official manual for the org.apache.log4j.
Config file For all log4j logs, <Drive installation directory>/lib/log4j.xml
Log type http
Log file name The log file name pattern is httplog/<protocol><connection address><user>_%u.log
Purpose information about WebDAV operations
Log type WD
Log file name The log file name pattern is httplog/WD-default.log and httplog/WD-info.log
Purpose additional information about WebDav processes that are not logged in the http logs
Log type xd_log
Log file name xd_log.log
Purpose default Log4j log record destination, receives all Log4j records with severity WARN and higher for namespaces above the the following namespaces: com.xythos.client.drive.remoteprotocol.webdav, org.apache.commons.digester.Digester, org.apache.commons.beanutils (these listed namespaces have their specific configuration that redirects their log record to volume specific log files)

C/C++ layer

Log type xpl
Config file XplLog.ini is located in the <logs directory>
Log file name The pattern is xpl_<namespace> - according to settings in <config file>

Other

Log type derby.log
Package com.xythos.client.drive.cache.db.CacheStorageDb
Purpose errors for cache database



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