InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog: log files
Question
Where are the log files for IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog found?
Cause
The log file names changed because InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog replaces IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary and IBM InfoSphere Workbench.
Answer
1. On the Services tier:
a. If running WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile - in .../IBM/InformationServer/wlp/usr/servers/iis/logs/:
- igc.log (with any .1, .2, ...)
- igc-admin-services.log (with any .1, .2, ...)
- omd-importer.log (with any .1, .2, ...)
- messages.log
// often helps with "unknown errors" in the user interface
b. If running WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment - in .../IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/InfoSphere/logs/:
- igc.log (with any .1, .2, ...)
- igc-admin-services.log (with any .1, .2, ...)
- omd-importer.log (with any .1, .2, ...)
- server1/SystemOut.log (include all versions with timestamps in their names)
// often helps with "unknown errors" in the user interface
- server1/SystemErr.log (include all versions with timestamps in their names)
2. On the Engine tier, everything under:
- - C:\IBM\InformationServer\Server\DSOMD\ logs
- C:\IBM\InformationServer\Server\DSOMD\xml
Log files for istool commands for InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog are found:
For Microsoft Windows operating system environment
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\istool_workspace\.metadata\.log
- where <username>is the name of the operating system account of the user who runs this command.
<user_home>/ <username>/istool_workspace/.metadata/.log
- where <user_home> is the root directory of all user accounts, and <username>is the name of the operating system account of the user who runs this command.