Logs

The WebSphere application server uses logs to log what is happening during server runtime. Administrators can use the logs to determine application server runtime status. Logs are also very useful during problem determination when there are problems with WebSphere. The main log folder is the application server's logs directory which is found in the<was_profile_root> folder. Below is a screenshot of a typical logs directory.

In the screenshot above, you will see that the application server is located in a profile named appsrv01, which is located in the profiles directory. The logs folder is located in the /apps/was7/profiles/appsrv01 folder which is referred to as<was_profile_root>. The logs folder will always be here unless you override log locations in the Administrative console.

JVM logs

The main logs for a WebSphere Application Server are contained in a folder with the same name as the application server. In our example, our application is called server1, so the log files...