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Chapter 4: Monitoring and Managing Log
Files
Adobe Flash Media Server has a variety of log files to help you manage and troubleshoot the server. The log files track
server activity, such as who is accessing the server, how users are working with applications, and general diagnostics.
Logs are in W3C format. Administrators can use standard parsing tools to parse the log files.
Working with log files
About log files
The server maintains several different types of logs. The server outputs statistics about client connections and stream
activity to access logs. The server also maintains diagnostic logs and application logs for application activities.
Tracks information about users accessing the server.
access.XX.log
Tracks information about activities in application instances.
application.XX.log
Track information about server operations.
diagnostic logs
Note: In Adobe Flash Player 9 Update 3, Flash Player no longer notifies the server about pause events.
Configuration files for logging
Use the Server.xml and Logger.xml configuration files to configure logging. The Server.xml file contains a
section that controls logging behavior for the entire server. The Logging section includes an
determines whether the server logs events. The Logging section also contains a
server writes separate log files for each virtual host or one file for the entire server. The location of each log file is
determined by the
Directory
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server
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each virtual host. If the
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file controls the logging behavior. If the
For more information, see comments in the Server.xml and Logger.xml files installed in the rootinstall/conf directory.
Working with web server log files
Flash Media Server installs with the Apache HTTP Server.
The default location of the Apache log files is RootInstall/Apache2.2/logs. The logs are in the default Apache error and
combined access log formats. To change the location of the log files, edit the RootInstall/Apache2.2/conf/httpd.conf file.
The Apache logs are named access_log and error_log. Flash Media Server handles log rotation for the Apache logs.
For more information about Apache log files, see the Apache documentation at www.apache.org.
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tags in the Logger.xml files.
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, the Logger.xml file in the rootinstall/conf folder determines the logging configuration
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tag is set to
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tag that determines whether the
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, virtual host Logger.xml files are ignored.
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