Re: Help Log4j Chainsaw - VFSLogFilePatternReceiver Usage
The file isn't going to be loaded, nor written to, using an invalid URL with backslashes in it. Use all forward slashes. You have... file:///C:\MyDocs\logs\mylog.log It should be file:///C:/MyDocs/logs/mylog.log Or, simply... file:/C:/MyDocs/logs/mylog.log Jake On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:51:26 -0400 Ding, Qin qin.d...@jpmchase.com wrote: Scott: 1. I manually downloaded mylog.log; and define a logfilePatternReceiver within chainsaw. Pointing to mylog.log. after that, it just sits there, I see nothing. The last entry in the detail panel: setValueAt, 2, 1, value=file:///C:\MyDocs\logs\mylog.log, valueClassclass java.lang.String 2. I copied the provided configuration file and modified the VFSLogFilePatternReceiver and put it in a folder. Use the instruction you gave me to load it. But on the receiver panel I did not see anything. Manually define a VFSLogFilePatternReceiver. Don't see the GUI prompt for id/pwd. Would you please give me a detailed the instruction or your working sample configuration file? Thank you QD -Original Message- From: Scott Deboy [mailto:scott.de...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 1:36 PM To: Log4J Users List Subject: Re: Help Log4j Chainsaw - VFSLogFilePatternReceiver Usage Chainsaw settings are stored in $userhome/.chainsaw - in that folder has a chainsaw-settings.xml file that is used to store application-wide preferences. Here is how you can get the 'configurationURL' field to be set in that file via the GUI: Use the file-load Chainsaw configuration menu option, then select 'use a chainsaw config file' and browse to it, then check the 'always start chainsaw with this configuration' check box. Scott On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Ding, Qin qin.d...@jpmchase.com wrote: Scott, I already tried by removing the id/pwd and then set true to the promptforuserinfo. However, I don't see the GUI. After restarting the app, I still don't see the GUI. I think this issue might be related to the following problem: How does the app pick up receiver config file in my case log4j.xml? Yesterday, I have a log4j.xml file defined and placed it in the chainsaw folder. Today, after I download the new chainsaw and started the app, I didn't tell the app where to look for the log4j.xml, but it seems find it from the location (old chainsaw) I defined yesterday. I redefined a new log4j.xml and place it under the new chainsaw folder. In application-wide preference, I remove the old log4j.xml and use the new log4j.xml. After I restarted the app, the log4j.xml in use is still the old one. I will remove the old the application including the log4j.xml. QD -Original Message- From: Scott Deboy [mailto:scott.de...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 1:14 PM To: Log4J Users List Subject: Re: Help Log4j Chainsaw - VFSLogFilePatternReceiver Usage Try this: set promptforuserinfo to 'true' and take your username and password out of the sftp URL. You will get a GUI username/password prompt..maybe something with special characters in your password? ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j=http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/; debug=true plugin class=org.apache.log4j. chainsaw.vfs.VFSLogFilePatternReceiver name=sftp param name=appendNonMatches value=true/ param name=autoReconnect value=true/ param name=fileURL value=sftp://192.168.1.144/pathhere/log.txt http://username:userpass@192.168.1.144/pathhere/log.txt / param name=logFormat value=TIMESTAMP PROP(OUTERLEVEL) PROP(OUTERLOGGER)- * [THREAD] LEVEL LOGGER - MESSAGE/ param name=name value=sftp/ param name=promptForUserInfo value=true/ param name=tailing value=true/ param name=timestampFormat value=MMdd HH:mm:ss.SSS/ param name=waitMillis value=2000/ /plugin /log4j:configuration Scott On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Ding, Qin qin.d...@jpmchase.com wrote: Thank you, Scott. but I get use FileZilla sftp SSH File Transfer Protocol to get file. Use I guess I have to view the static file manually downloaded. Thank you very much. QD -Original Message- From: Scott Deboy [mailto:scott.de...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:36 AM To: Log4J Users List Subject: Re: Help Log4j Chainsaw - VFSLogFilePatternReceiver Usage If you are still having problems, the issue may be with your server. VFSLogFilePatternReceiver uses Jakarta Commons VFS, which uses the JSch library to support the 'sftp' protocol. According to their website, this is: *SSH File Transfer Protocol(version 0, 1, 2, 3) *I'd suggest verifying your server actually supports SFTP. It may support ssh connections but not support the SSH File Transfer Protocol. Scott On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Scott Deboy scott.de...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a configuration I just used to retrieve a log file from my Mac using the latest developer snapshot of Chainsaw V2 running on Vista. I don't
RE: Help Log4j Chainsaw - VFSLogFilePatternReceiver Usage
Thank you Jake.
Now with my file in C:/MyDocs/logs/mylog.log is loaded, it displays everything
in Message column without splitting into different columns.
On log4j event generating side, I have
appender name=DRFA class=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
param name=File value=${catalina.base}/logs/mylog.log /
param name=Append value=true /
layout class=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
param name=ConversionPattern
value=[%d{ISO8601}] %-5p %t (%F:%M:%L) -%m%n /
/layout
/appender
On log4j receiving side: my receiver's logFormat is [TIMESTAMP] LEVEL THREAD
(FILE:METHOD:LINE) -MESSAGE
I don't know what the filterExpression and customerLevelDefinitions are; so I
keep them empty.
How can I make the chainsaw parse mylog.log correctly into different columns?
QD
-Original Message-
From: Jacob Kjome [mailto:h...@visi.com]
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 9:00 AM
To: Log4J Users List
Subject: Re: Help Log4j Chainsaw - VFSLogFilePatternReceiver Usage
The file isn't going to be loaded, nor written to, using an invalid URL with
backslashes in it. Use all forward slashes. You have...
file:///C:\MyDocs\logs\mylog.log
It should be
file:///C:/MyDocs/logs/mylog.log
Or, simply...
file:/C:/MyDocs/logs/mylog.log
Jake
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:51:26 -0400
Ding, Qin qin.d...@jpmchase.com wrote:
Scott:
1. I manually downloaded mylog.log; and define a logfilePatternReceiver
within chainsaw. Pointing to mylog.log. after that, it just sits there, I see
nothing. The last entry in the detail panel: setValueAt, 2, 1,
value=file:///C:\MyDocs\logs\mylog.log, valueClassclass java.lang.String
2. I copied the provided configuration file and modified the
VFSLogFilePatternReceiver and put it in a folder. Use the instruction you
gave me to load it. But on the receiver panel I did not see anything.
Manually define a VFSLogFilePatternReceiver. Don't see the GUI prompt for
id/pwd.
Would you please give me a detailed the instruction or your working sample
configuration file?
Thank you
QD
-Original Message-
From: Scott Deboy [mailto:scott.de...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 1:36 PM
To: Log4J Users List
Subject: Re: Help Log4j Chainsaw - VFSLogFilePatternReceiver Usage
Chainsaw settings are stored in $userhome/.chainsaw - in that folder has a
chainsaw-settings.xml file that is used to store application-wide
preferences. Here is how you can get the 'configurationURL' field to be set
in that file via the GUI:
Use the file-load Chainsaw configuration menu option, then select 'use a
chainsaw config file' and browse to it, then check the 'always start
chainsaw with this configuration' check box.
Scott
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Ding, Qin qin.d...@jpmchase.com wrote:
Scott, I already tried by removing the id/pwd and then set true to the
promptforuserinfo. However, I don't see the GUI. After restarting the app, I
still don't see the GUI. I think this issue might be related to the
following problem:
How does the app pick up receiver config file in my case log4j.xml?
Yesterday, I have a log4j.xml file defined and placed it in the chainsaw
folder. Today, after I download the new chainsaw and started the app, I
didn't tell the app where to look for the log4j.xml, but it seems find it
from the location (old chainsaw) I defined yesterday. I redefined a new
log4j.xml and place it under the new chainsaw folder. In application-wide
preference, I remove the old log4j.xml and use the new log4j.xml. After I
restarted the app, the log4j.xml in use is still the old one.
I will remove the old the application including the log4j.xml.
QD
-Original Message-
From: Scott Deboy [mailto:scott.de...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 1:14 PM
To: Log4J Users List
Subject: Re: Help Log4j Chainsaw - VFSLogFilePatternReceiver Usage
Try this: set promptforuserinfo to 'true' and take your username and
password out of the sftp URL. You will get a GUI username/password
prompt..maybe something with special characters in your password?
?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j=http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/;
debug=true
plugin class=org.apache.log4j.
chainsaw.vfs.VFSLogFilePatternReceiver name=sftp
param name=appendNonMatches value=true/
param name=autoReconnect value=true/
param name=fileURL
value=sftp://192.168.1.144/pathhere/log.txt
http://username:userpass@192.168.1.144/pathhere/log.txt
/
param name=logFormat value=TIMESTAMP PROP(OUTERLEVEL)
PROP(OUTERLOGGER)- * [THREAD] LEVEL LOGGER - MESSAGE/
param name=name value=sftp/
param name=promptForUserInfo value=true/
param name=tailing value=true/
param name=timestampFormat value=MMdd HH:mm:ss.SSS/
param name=waitMillis value=2000/
/plugin
/log4j:configuration
Scott
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Ding, Qin qin.d...@jpmchase.com
Re: Help Log4j Chainsaw - VFSLogFilePatternReceiver Usage
Chainsaw can automatically build a Chainsaw config file from fileappender
entries in a log4j appender config file (both log4j.xml and log4j.properties
formats)...
By the way, I assume you can get sftp processing to work fine now as well,
since it looks like you just had incorrect slashes in your URL?
The code that parses the log4j.xml config is a little case sensitive, so
modify your appender to have the 'file' param lowercase and save it - I'll
commit a fix for this. Chainsaw doesn't know what catalina base is, so you
should temporarily replace the catalina.base system property with a path:
param name=file value=/path/to/logs/mylog.log /
Then in Chainsaw:
1. use the file-load chainsaw configuration menu item
2. Choose the (default) Use fileappender entries from a log4j config file
3. Click 'open file' and browse to your log4j xml configuration file and
select it
4. Click the 'save configuration as' button and save this configuration with
a file name (it will generate an xml configuration file, so save with an
.xml extension)
5. Click the 'always start Chainsaw with this configuration' (if you'd like)
Chainsaw should parse the conversion pattern and create a
VFSLogFilePatternReceiver configuration that will parse the fields in your
log file.
Don't forget to un-do your temporary changes to your log4j xml config file.
This same process would work for remote config files, you would just need to
change the resulting fileURL in the chainsaw config file to be an sftp://
URL.
Hope that helps..
Scott
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Ding, Qin qin.d...@jpmchase.com wrote:
Thank you Jake.
Now with my file in C:/MyDocs/logs/mylog.log is loaded, it displays
everything in Message column without splitting into different columns.
On log4j event generating side, I have
appender name=DRFA class=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
param name=File value=${catalina.base}/logs/mylog.log /
param name=Append value=true /
layout class=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
param name=ConversionPattern
value=[%d{ISO8601}] %-5p %t (%F:%M:%L) -%m%n /
/layout
/appender
On log4j receiving side: my receiver's logFormat is [TIMESTAMP] LEVEL
THREAD (FILE:METHOD:LINE) -MESSAGE
I don't know what the filterExpression and customerLevelDefinitions are; so
I keep them empty.
How can I make the chainsaw parse mylog.log correctly into different
columns?
QD
-Original Message-
From: Jacob Kjome [mailto:h...@visi.com]
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 9:00 AM
To: Log4J Users List
Subject: Re: Help Log4j Chainsaw - VFSLogFilePatternReceiver Usage
The file isn't going to be loaded, nor written to, using an invalid URL
with
backslashes in it. Use all forward slashes. You have...
file:///C:\MyDocs\logs\mylog.log
It should be
file:///C:/MyDocs/logs/mylog.log
Or, simply...
file:/C:/MyDocs/logs/mylog.log
Jake
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:51:26 -0400
Ding, Qin qin.d...@jpmchase.com wrote:
Scott:
1. I manually downloaded mylog.log; and define a logfilePatternReceiver
within chainsaw. Pointing to mylog.log. after that, it just sits there, I
see
nothing. The last entry in the detail panel: setValueAt, 2, 1,
value=file:///C:\MyDocs\logs\mylog.log, valueClassclass java.lang.String
2. I copied the provided configuration file and modified the
VFSLogFilePatternReceiver and put it in a folder. Use the instruction you
gave me to load it. But on the receiver panel I did not see anything.
Manually define a VFSLogFilePatternReceiver. Don't see the GUI prompt
for
id/pwd.
Would you please give me a detailed the instruction or your working
sample
configuration file?
Thank you
QD
-Original Message-
From: Scott Deboy [mailto:scott.de...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 1:36 PM
To: Log4J Users List
Subject: Re: Help Log4j Chainsaw - VFSLogFilePatternReceiver Usage
Chainsaw settings are stored in $userhome/.chainsaw - in that folder has
a
chainsaw-settings.xml file that is used to store application-wide
preferences. Here is how you can get the 'configurationURL' field to be
set
in that file via the GUI:
Use the file-load Chainsaw configuration menu option, then select 'use a
chainsaw config file' and browse to it, then check the 'always start
chainsaw with this configuration' check box.
Scott
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Ding, Qin qin.d...@jpmchase.com
wrote:
Scott, I already tried by removing the id/pwd and then set true to the
promptforuserinfo. However, I don't see the GUI. After restarting the
app, I
still don't see the GUI. I think this issue might be related to the
following problem:
How does the app pick up receiver config file in my case log4j.xml?
Yesterday, I have a log4j.xml file defined and placed it in the
chainsaw
folder. Today, after I download the new chainsaw and started the app, I
didn't tell the app where to look for the
