Enabling Debug Mode And Core Dumps; Starting Apache In Debug Mode - Novell ACCESS MANAGER 3.1 SP2 - ACCESS GATEWAY GUIDE 2010 Manual

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4 If one or more services are not running, select the service and start it.
5 If a service won't start, view the log files to determine the cause. See the following:
Section 8.6, "Solving Apache Restart Issues," on page
Section 8.1.2, "The Access Gateway Service Log Files," on page 246

8.3 Enabling Debug Mode and Core Dumps

If the log files are not generating enough information to identify the cause of a problem, you can run
the Access Gateway Service in debug mode. You should not be running in debug mode except when
you are trying to isolate a problem because of the following side effects:
Debug mode causes the size of the log files to grow quickly. They can grow large enough to
consume all available disk space and crash the system. When running in debug mode, you need
to carefully monitor available disk space and the size of the log files.
Debug mode opens additional ports. Anyone who has local access to the Access Gateway
machine can see the information displayed in the following local URLs:
http://127.0.0.1:8181/server-status
http://127.0.0.1:8181/server-info
Debug mode causes load and response times to slow.
Debug mode enables core dumps, enables X-Mag headers in LAN traces, and increases log levels by
enabling all options in the
Linux:
/var/opt/novell/tomcat5/webaps/agm/WEB-INF/config/apache2
Windows:
This section describes the following tasks:
Section 8.3.1, "Starting Apache in Debug Mode," on page 250
Section 8.3.2, "Examining the Debug Information," on page 251
Section 8.3.3, "Disabling Debug Mode," on page 251

8.3.1 Starting Apache in Debug Mode

"Linux" on page 250
"Windows" on page 251
Linux
Use the following commands to start debug mode:
/etc/init.d/novell-apache2 stop
/etc/init.d/novell-apache2 start debug
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DebugSettings.conf
\Program Files\Novell\apache\conf
254.
file located in the following directory: