Smarts NCM: How to change the Tomcat logs directory for the Application Server or Report Advisor

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - NCM

Resolution

To change the directory used by the Tomcat server for logging Smarts NCM Application Server or Report Advisor operations



To change the logging directory used by the Tomcat server for Smarts NCM Application Server and/or Report Advisor, do the following:

1. On the Smarts NCM server, change (cd) to the following directory

$TOMCAT_HOME/conf

1. Open the logging.properties file for editing.
2. Replace ${catalina.base} with the directory path where you want to have tomcat logs to be created. Ensure the new path has tomcat:tomcat permissions.
3. Restart the tomcat service.