/arcgis/logs folder

This log folder centralizes all the log files for all ArcGIS Server Components

• ecs : under this folder are Enterprise Core Services log files including rpcss.log and regss.log.

• server : contains log files for running ArcGIS server.

  1. RemoteSA.log - records user authentication information. You can turn on the debugging information in this log file by running
  % <ArcGIS Server Installation directory>/arcgis/scripts/switchlogging on
  2. SOC_logs - contains log files for each SOC processes. By default, it's turned off. You can turn on the debugging information in this log file by running
     % <ArcGIS Server Installation directory>/arcgis/scripts/switchlogging on
  3. SOM_logs - links to the default SOM log directory. The logging in this folders shows in ArcGIS Server Manager. If you specify another log file location, you need to re-create the link.
  4. Startup.log - recordes the output of running the startserver.sh and stopserver.sh scripts.

  5. SunDS.log - the directory server log file. You can ignore the warning or error messages like below.

     ....../arcgis/servercore/agsidsvr/agsldap/slapd-/stop-slapd: No such file or directory
     There is an ns-slapd process already running: XXXX
     ......
  6. xvfb.log - records any errors when starting Xvfb. This log file would only get generated if there were an error during starting up the Xvfb process.
• manager : contains log files for ArcGIS Server Manager
• Setup : contains log files at the time of installation or configuration of ArcGIS Server.
• splog : contains log files for Service Pack. log file(s) under this folder won't exist if you don't have any Service Pack installed.