Applies to
The article applies to the following products and versions:
Product: iRise Definition Center
Versions: all versions
Summary
This article describes how to enable the access log valve in the Tomcat instance associated with a Definition Center and see traffic to and from the Definition Center with addresses of machines requesting information
Instructions
Tomcat provides an access log valve that when enabled will log all traffic to and from the server detailing the addresses of the machines making the request or receiving the data. This information is useful to check and make sure that only authorized users are attempting to access a Definition Center
To make the change follow these steps:
Open the x:\iRise\DefCenter\Tomcat\conf\server.xml file in a text editor
Search for the following block of code in the file:
<!--
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"
prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt" pattern="common" resolveHosts="false"/>
-->
Uncomment the line by removing the opening <!-- and closing --> tags
Stop and start the iRise Definition Center service
Note the new log created in x:\iRise\DefCenter\Tomcat\logs directory named localhost_access_log.yyyy-mm-dd with the new content.
As with all new log files, check to make sure that the volume of traffic to your Definition Center does not create overly large log files that consume lots of disk space. Monitor the log sizes periodically and consider implementing batch processing to archive or delete older access valve log files after a certain time period