Logging Configuration

Logging is done using log4net and is configured by editing the log4Net configuration in the log4net.config file. All logging output defaults to the logs directory under the installation location.

Logging capabilities include:

• Different log levels: Debug, Info, Warning, Error, and Fatal
• Can log to: File, Database, Windows Event Log, Email, several other sources, or any combination of these
• Set maximum log file size, number of file rollovers, etc
• Configurable log output (date/time format, log source, etc)
• Dynamic configuration: Make changes on-the-fly, without re-starting your application

Default location for indexing applications: [InstallDir]\indexer\logs

Default location for web service: [InstallDir]\webservice\logs

Logging For File Document Indexing

When rich documents, such as word and PDF files, are being indexed a Text Extraction library is being used. This library has logging infrastructure which is unfortunately different than log4net. By default we have the configuration of this alternate logging infrastructure hard coded to log all errors to the following log file:

[InstallDir]\indexer\logs\text-extraction-errors.log

If you wish to customize the logging of this library you can create a log4j.config file according to the log4j manual nd put it into the indexer's application directory.

[InstallDir]\indexer\log4j.config

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