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6.6.0.13: Log Analyzer main window
6.6.0.13: Log Analyzer main window
The Log Analyzer takes one or more activity or trace logs, merges all the data, and, by default, displays the entries in unit of work groupings. It analyzes
error conditions in the log entries to provide error message explanations. The Log Analyzer's main window has the following interface:
Window panes
The Log Analyzer window has three panes:
- Logs pane (left)
You may find the unit of work UOW grouping useful when you are trying to find related entries
in the activity log or when you are debugging problems across multiple machines. By
default, Log Analyzer's Logs pane displays log entries by unit of work. It lists all the
unit of work (UOW) instances and its associated entries from the logs that you have
opened. The file name of the first log that you opened is shown in the pane's title bar.
By default, the log entries are shown in UOW sequence. There is a root folder and under
it, each UOW has a folder
icon which you can expand to show all the entries for that UOW. All log entries without
any UOW identification are grouped into a single folder in this tree view. The UOW folders
are sorted to show the UOW with the latest timestamp at the top of the list. The entries within
each UOW are listed in the reverse sequence, that is the first (earliest) entry for that
UOW is displayed at the top of the list. If you have merged several logs in the Log
Analyzer, all the log entries are merged in timestamp sequence within each UOW folder, as
if they all came from the same log.
Each UOW line has the following format:

Click the icon next
to the UOW folder to see all the log entries for the UOW. Each log entry's identification
has the following format:
For the WebSphere Enterprise Edition:

For WebSphere Advanced Edition:

Every log entry is assigned an entry number, Rec_nnnn, when a log is opened in
the Log Analyzer. If more than one file is opened in the Log Analyzer (merged files), the
Rec_nnnn identification will not be unique because the number is relative to the
entry sequence in the original log file and not to the merged data that the Log Analyzer
is displaying. This Rec_nnnn appears in the first line (RecoredId)
in the Records pane.
By default, each entry in this pane is color-coded to help you quickly identify the
ones that have high severity errors.
- Non-selected log entry with background color of:
- Pink indicates that it has a severity 1 error.
- Yellow indicates that it has a severity 2 error.
- White indicates that it has a severity 3 error.
- Selected log entry with background color of:
- Red indicates that it has a severity 1 error.
- Green indicates that it has a severity 2 error.
- Blue indicates that it has a severity 3 error.
These colors are configurable and can be changed in the Log Analyzer's Preferences Log
page. See Background color for different
error severity levels and for more information on how to do this.
The Log Analyzer can display the log entries in different groupings. Use the Log Analyzer
Preferences notebook: Logs page to set the grouping
filters.
After the Analyze
action has been invoked, each analyzed log entry has the following icons:
indicates that the entry has some analysis information in one or
more pages in the Analysis pane.
indicates that the entry has some analysis information and that it
has a reraised or remapped exception. You may want to look at the log entry prior to this
one when diagnosing problems.
indicates that the entry has either a severity 1 or 2 error but no additional analysis
information is available for it.
indicates that the entry has a severity 3 error and it has no analysis information.
- Record pane (upper right)
When you select an entry under the unit of work in the Logs pane, you see the entry in the
Record pane. The entry's identification is shown in the pane's title bar. Right-click in
this Record pane to see the actions that you can perform on the entry. There is a drop
down arrow next to Record which allows you to go back to look at the last
ten records that you have viewed. The cache for the historical data (10, by default)
is set in the Preferences General page.
Note:
- The associated analysis data for these cached records are not shown. To see analysis information for cached data, reselect the entry from the Logs pane.
- The timestamp format that appears in the Record pane must match the format that was used by the showlog command when formatting the log.
You can enable/disable line wrap mode for the Record Pane using the Log
Analyzer Preferences notebook: Record. To print contents of this pane, select Record
> Print when the Record pane is in focus.
- Analysis pane (lower right)
When analyze action has
been invoked and additional information is available, the information will appear
in the Symptom page. The page, GPF, is filled in only when the analyze action is invoked and there is a GPF
dump. If the page tab is grayed out, there is no information in that page. The pages of
the Analysis pane are:
- Symptom
The Log Analyzer provides a database of information to help you recover
from some common WebSphere errors. As a part of the analyze
action, if such recovery information is found in the database for the selected log entry,
the information is displayed in this page.
You can set line wrap for information that appears in the Symptom page in the Analysis
pane using the Log Analyzer Preferences notebook -- Analyzer
output.
The Symptoms page can be detached into separate windows to make it easy for
you to view all the information by selecting View > Detach into a new window.
You can set line wrap for information that appears in the Symptoms page in the Analysis
pane using the Log Analyzer Preferences notebook -- Analyzer
output.
Status line
There is a status line at the bottom of the window showing the status of actions.
Menu bar
The menu bar in the Log Analyzer's main window, has the following selections:
Pop-up actions
In the focused pane, right-click to bring up a list of actions in a pop-up menu. Actions
that you cannot perform are grayed out. When a folder is selected in Logs pane, the action
applies to all the entries in that folder. To select several folders or entries in the
Logs pane, hold down the Ctrl key when making the selection.
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