Customizing an InfoPrint Manager server error log

By default, the InfoPrint Manager server error log starts when the InfoPrint Manager server starts. Use the following procedure to customize the InfoPrint Manager server error log(s). Any InfoPrint Manager server processes that are running on this AIX server are changed by this customization the next time they are started.
  1. Find the spl_error.cfg file in the /usr/lpp/pd/bin directory. Copy it into the /var/pd/servername directory if you want to customize the error log only for servername, or into the /var/pd/ or %PDBASE% directory if you want to customize the error log for all InfoPrint Manager servers:
    cp /usr/lpp/pd/bin/spl_error.cfg /var/pd/servername/spl_error.cfg
    or 
    cp /usr/lpp/pd/bin/spl_error.cfg /var/pd/spl_error.cfg
    Note: If you already customized your server error logs, remember to change the name or move the current spl_error.cfg file in /var/pd/servername or /var/pd/ so that your customization values can be copied over into the newer version of the file.
  2. Open the copy of the spl_error.cfg file that you created and specify the settings for the log attributes that you want.

    For example, you can modify the log-backup-number attribute, which allows you to specify the number of backup logs that InfoPrint Manager saves, including the initial error.log.BAK file.

    Sample spl_error.cfg file provided by InfoPrint Manager

    #
# ErrorLog Configuration File
#
# Log size (units = KBytes)
log-size = 1024
# Wrap On?
log-wrap = true
# Severity?
log-severity = debug
# Number of backup log files
log-backup-number = 10

    When you start the InfoPrint Manager server after a shut down, it backs up the first error log by creating an error.log.BAK file. With each successive restart, it creates an additional .BAK file, adding a timestamp as a fourth qualifier. By default, the log-backup-number attribute specifies a value of 10, meaning that you can have nine back up files with timestamps and the initial .BAK file. You can reduce this number as low as 1 or increase it as high as 999.

    For a complete list of the error log attributes that you can customize, see the Attributes for logs section in the InfoPrint Manager object attributes chapter of RICOH InfoPrint Manager: Reference.

  3. Once you have finished defining your options, save and close the /var/pd/servername/spl_error.cfg or /var/pd/spl_error.cfg file.
  4. To shut down the InfoPrint Manager server so that these customization changes can take effect, specify from the AIX command line:pdshutdown -w now servername.
    Note: If you do not need the customization change to take effect immediately, you can skip the final two steps and just wait until the next time the AIX system where the InfoPrint Manager server is installed on is restarted.
  5. To restart the server, enter start_server -F servername where servername is the name of your InfoPrint Manager server.
Parent topic: Customizing error logs in the InfoPrint Manager server