How to enable CORBA debug for Spectrum

Products

• CA Spectrum
• DX NetOps

Issue/Introduction

When working with external CORBA applications that need to connect to the SpectroSERVER, there may be a need to enable CORBA debugging on the Spectrum side.

For example:  Customer is working on integration with Netcool.  Looking for logging location or debug information to troubleshoot the connection

Environment

Release: All Supported Releases

Component : SPCCSS - Spectrum Core / SpectroSERVER

Resolution

For verbose CORBA debug, edit the SPECROOT/.corbarc file and scroll to the bottom.  Uncomment the last 6 lines:

# Uncomment the following lines to enable corba logging.

# Note this could take 500meg of disk space( 10 files x 50meg each )

#vbroker.log.enable=true

#vbroker.log.default.appenders=rolling

#vbroker.log.default.appender.rolling.fileName=vbroker_debug.log

#vbroker.log.default.appender.rolling.layoutType=full

#vbroker.log.default.appender.rolling.maxFileSize=50

#vbroker.log.default.appender.rolling.maxBackupIndex=10 

You must then stop the SpectroSERVER and processd.  Start processd, then the SpectroSERVER.  There will be rolling CORBA debug log files in the $SPECROOT directory.