How to enable DEBUG mode log in arcotafm

Products

• CA Advanced Authentication
• CA Strong Authentication

Issue/Introduction

How to enable DEBUG mode logs in arcotafm application that comes with CA Adapter?

Environment

CA Advanced Authentication (any supported platform)

Resolution

Below are the steps to enable DEBUG mode logging in arcotafm application. Logs will be printed in <AFM_HOME>\logs\arcotafm.log file as the default location but it can be modified to print logs at any other location.

Advanced Authentication  7.1 and  above releases - (Adapter 2.2.9 and above)

• Navigate to <AFM_HOME>\conf\afm directory.
• Edit arcotafm-log4j.properties and change “INFO” to “DEBUG” on operations you want to debug then save. The example below is turning debug on the front-end Authentication Flow Manager modules.

### Set log levels. For more verbose logging, change 'info' to 'debug'. ###
logger.enterprise.name=org.apache.axis2.enterprise
logger.enterprise.level=INFO

logger.frontend.name=com.arcot.integrations.frontend
logger.frontend.level=INFO

logger.samlsvc.name=com.arcot.integrations.afm.ws.samlsvc
logger.samlsvc.level=INFO

logger.common.name=com.arcot.webfort.common.api
logger.common.level=ALL

logger.authentication.name=com.arcot.webfort.authentication.api
logger.authentication.level=ALL

logger.issuance.name=com.arcot.webfort.issuance.api
logger.issuance.level=INFO

logger.pool.name=com.arcot.pool
logger.pool.level=ALL

logger.riskfortAPI.name=com.arcot.riskfortAPI
logger.riskfortAPI.level=ALL

• Restart the arcotafm application or Application Server.

Advanced Authentication 6.2  and  5.4  releases - (Adapter 2.2.7 and below)

• Navigate to <APPLICATION_SERVER_HOME>\webapps\arcotafm\WEB-INF\classes\
• Edit log4j.properties and change “INFO” to “DEBUG” on operations you want to debug then save.  The example below is turning debug on the front-end Authentication Flow Manager  modules.
   
  Before: log4j.rootLogger=INFO, afmout
  After:  log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, afmout
   
  Before: log4j.logger.com.arcot.integrations.frontend=INFO
  After:  log4j.logger.com.arcot.integrations.frontend=DEBUG
• Restart the arcotafm application or Application Server.