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Contents of the logs


BMC Helix Digital Workplace provides logging capabilities to help resolve application issues. For most log files, the format of the content is as follows:
TIME| THREAD| LEVEL| COMPONENT| MESSAGE

BMC Helix Digital Workplace log files

The following log files are available:

Log file

Location

Description

dwp.timeStamp.part.n.log.gz

/opt/dwp/apache/tomcat/logs/yyyy-mm-weekn

Primary Tomcat log file. Events for BMC Helix Digital Workplace are logged in this file. To download a sample file with all log levels set to debug, see MyIT Tomcat Logging in the BMC Support Knowledge Base. To configure the logging levels, see BMC-Helix-Digital-Workplace.

The dwp.timeStamp.part.n.log.gz file contains data related to backend calls and their duration. When the maximum defined log file size is reached, a new log file is created, and the n counter in the log file name is incremented to n+1. For information about retaining dwp.timeStamp.part.n.log.gz files in the logging history, see Log files retention.

dwp.log

/opt/dwp/apache/tomcat/logs

This is the current version of dwp.<timeStamp>.part.n.log. The time stamp and part are added when the file is saved, and a new dwp.log is started.

dwp-sysinfo.log

Provider startup log. Check this log file for provider failures, such as integration issues.

dwp-userpool.log

Issues encountered while communicating with Remedy.

dwp-notifications.log

Issues encountered when sending email notifications to end users. The log file contains details of errors related to the SMTP connection, undelivered emails, and undeliverable email addresses.

 

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