Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Administration Handbook

Generating Logs for Troubleshooting

You can redirect standard error and standard output to integrate thread dump information with server error messages to produce a more useful log for troubleshooting purposes. A thread dump displays the current stack in an active thread. Here are the steps for collecting a more useful log with thread dump information to send to Oracle Support personnel:

1. Stop the server and back up the current log files.

2. Restart the server with the following command:

% java -ms64m -mx64m -verbose:gc -classpath $CLASSPATH
-Dweblogic.domain=mydomain -Dweblogic.Name=clusterServer1
-Djava.security.policy==$WL_HOME/lib/weblogic.policy
-Dweblogic.admin.host=localhost:7011 weblogic.Server >> logfile.txt

The previous startup ...