Examining the ContentReporter server log file

About examining the ContentReporter log file

You can examine the current ContentReporter server log file to look for the cause of a certain problem, or to learn more about the ContentReporter server's activities. The log file is a date/time-stamped file with a .log extension. The ContentReporter server log file contains six fields. You open the ContentReporter server log file on the Administration Logging tab.

To learn more about configuring the ContentReporter server logging, see Configuring ContentReporter server logging.

ContentReporter log file fields

The following table describes the six ContentReporter log file fields.

Field	Description
cr-timestamp	The date/time-stamp of the activity in the format: mmddyyyy_hhmmss
cr-level	The logging level of the activity: from 1 to 5
x-username	The user (or the System) related to (or responsible for) the activity
cr-component	The component of ContentReporter responsible for the activity (such as the parser or the DataCollector)
cs-comment	A brief description of the activity (such as "Successfully logged in") This field also contains: The parser return codes The sorter return codes The SQL bulk uploader return codes
cr_exception	A brief description of a Java exception

The ContentReporter log file

The following screen shows a portion of a ContentReporter server log file.

For detailed information

The following sections explain how to examine the ContentReporter server log file: