ArcIMS provides feedback in the form of log files and error and warning messages. This information is vital when you are trying to troubleshoot a problem. Most ArcIMS Spatial Server, Application Server, and administration error and warning messages are identified by a code.
- Each code has a prefix of either ERR, for error, or WRN for warning.
- Each code has a four-digit number. The first two digits of this number represent the ArcIMS component in which the error or warning originated. The second two digits represent a unique value for all errors or warnings for each component.
As an example, the code ERR0506 is an error message associated with the ArcMap Server. "ERR" indicates an error. "05" represents the ArcMap Server. "06" is a unique number among ArcMap Server errors. The first two digits of the codes and their corresponding components are listed in the following table.
Component ID
(two digit code) |
Component |
| 01 |
Application Server errors and warnings |
| 04 |
Administration errors and warnings |
| 05 |
ArcMap Server errors and warnings |
| 06 |
Extract Server errors |
| 07 |
Feature and Query Server errors |
| 08 |
Geocode Server errors |
| 09 |
Image Server errors and warnings |
| 20 |
General errors |
| 21 |
DBF related errors and warnings |
| 24 |
ArcSDE related errors and warnings |
| 25 |
Shapefile related errors |
The Spatial Server log files contain two types of error messages along with warning messages:
- Failed error message - An error message is logged by the Spatial Server and is forwarded to the ArcIMS Application Server. Failed error messages include the ERROR element in the response and are reported to the ArcIMS Application Server and clients. For service administration errors, the Application Server forwards the error message to Administrator or Service Administrator. For failed requests, the Application Server forwards the error message to the requesting client.
- Log Error message - An error message is logged by the Spatial Server. But is not forwarded to the Application Server, Administrator, Service Administrator, or clients. A regular response, rather than an error message, is sent instead. However, the Spatial Server could not fully process the request, and the response will likely not show expected results.
- Warning message - A warning message is logged by the Spatial Server. In the majority of cases, this message is not forwarded to the Application Server, Administrator, Service Administrator, or clients. A regular response is sent instead. Often when a warning message is generated, it means defaults were used in place of a request's invalid attribute values.
