24.5. Configuring the activity.log

There are four parameters that you can configure for the activity.log: size of activity.log, port number on which the logging service is listening, enabling shared logging, and the output format of the ring buffer. The first two are described in the following sections, and the output format is discussed in 24.8, “Using the Log Analyzer to view the ring buffer dump” on page 996. Enabling shared logging is not discussed.

24.5.1. Specify the size of activity.log

The activity.log will grow to a predetermined size and then will wrap. The default size is 1 MB.

A property named “SHARED_LOG_LENGTH” can be specified to change the size of this log.

To change this property, edit the file named <WAS_HOME>/properties/logging.properties. ...

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