plog

Use the plog command to obtain and optionally view the XML log for a publishing request. The plog command requests the XML log for a specific request from the BMC Impact Publishing Server and routes it in XML format to standard output. Use the plogdisplay command with the plog command to convert the XML log to text and to output the text to standard output.

plog syntax

plog <common options> <RequestID \[-r\] \[-s\] \[-w\]>

plog command options

The required command option for plog is the RequestID.

The following table lists the options for plog:

plog options

<common options>
-c -h -? -i -q -l -p
-t -v -z

RequestID

-r

-w

-s

plog examples

This section provides examples of using the plog command to obtain and output the XML log for a specific service model publishing request.

Viewing the XML log for a specific publishing request as stdout

To obtain the XML log for a specific publishing request and send it to standard output for viewing, type a command similar to the following, substituting the request ID in this example:

plog -s Z00000e8mu7xw9Xpa1ZfsMZeg4v1Z 

Viewing the XML log for a specific publishing request as a text in stdout

To obtain the XML publishing log for a specific publishing request, convert it to text format, and output it to standard output for viewing, type a command similar to the following, substituting the request ID:

plog -s Z00000e8mu7xw9Xpa1ZfsMZeg4v1Z | plogdisplay -@

Using this command, you can pipe the output of the plog command through the plogdisplay command to convert it to text format for output. See plogdisplay.

plog return codes

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