Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Architecture and Management

Understanding Fusion Middleware Logging

The simplest, and sometimes most effective, way of analyzing a Fusion Middleware environment’s health and failure conditions consists of examining the environment’s log files. To do so, however, requires a good understanding of the Fusion Middleware logging infrastructure—that is, the way log files are generated—as well as the format of the content of the log files. There are two categories of log files within a Fusion Middleware environment: log files generated by WebLogic Server, and log files generated directly by Fusion Middleware layered components. The former is managed by the WebLogic Server logging infrastructure, whereas the latter is managed through the Oracle Diagnostics Logging (ODL) framework, ...