pshowlog

Use the pshowlog command to view the XML log, in a user-friendly format, for any request to the Publishing Server. The pshowlog command provides a quick way to display all the information shown by the plog command with all command options specified. However, pshowlog displays the log in a non-XML, readable format. The pshowlog command requests the XML log for the specific request from the Publishing Server and routes it in readable format to standard output.

pshowlog syntax

<pshowlog \[ -i User/Password\[@Host\[/Port\]\[,Host\[/Port\]\[,...\]\]\] requestId \| -h>

pshowlog command options

The required command option for pshowlog is the requestID.

The following table lists the options for pshowlog.

pshowlog options

Any non-supported options added to the pshowlog command results in the usage being printed to stdout (standard out).

pshowlog example

This section provides examples of using the pshowlog command to obtain and output the XML log in readable format for a specific service model publishing request. Type a command similar to the following, substituting the request ID in this example:

pshowlog Z00000e8mu7xw9Xpa1ZfsMZeg4v1Z 

pshowlog return codes

For information about CLI return codes, see Return codes for Publishing Server CLIs.