Discovering MicroStrategy logs

MicroStrategy components generate tons of logs about low-level activity such as memory use, service information, errors, and so on. One of the most valuable logs is DSSErrors.log. If MicroStrategy has any problems, it is good practice to start from this log and look at the information. You can find it using this command:

# cd /root/mstr10/microstrategy_logs

If we open the log file, we can see rows of data and search information about particular issues:

Discovering MicroStrategy logs

For example, let's imagine that the MicroStrategy server was shut down. In order to understand why it happened, we should open DSSErrors.log and look to see what the ...

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