Symptoms

poa-ui.log is missing on a UI node.

Restarting pemui and pem syslogd services did not help, the log file is simply not being created.

Cause

Log configuration file log4j.xml is either empty or contains an error.

The file itself ought to be placed in:

Linux:

    /usr/local/apache-tomcat-x.x.xx/lib/log4j.xml

Windows:

    C:\Program Files\SWsoft\PEM\apache-tomcat-x.x.xx\lib\log4j.xml

Resolution

  1. Compare log4j.xml to the same file from some correctly working node or to the example below (for instance, path may contain spaces):

    Linux:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd">
    <log4j:configuration>
    <appender name="POA"
            class="com.plesk.p2.turbine.services.logging.RollingFileAppender">
            <param name="Append" value="true" />
            <param name="MaxSizeBackupIndex" value="10" />
            <param name="MaxTimeBackupIndex" value="5" />
            <param name="File" value="/var/log/poa-ui" />
            <param name="DatePattern" value="'.'yyyy-MM-dd" />
            <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
                    <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{ISO8601} %-10.10X{sid} %-5.5t %-6p %-20.20c{1} %m%n" />
            </layout>
    </appender>
    <logger name="OUT">
            <level value="DEBUG" />
    </logger>
    <logger name="ERR">
            <level value="DEBUG" />
    </logger>
    <logger name="Debug">
            <level value="DEBUG" />
    </logger>
    <logger name="CORBA">
            <level value="DEBUG" />
    </logger>
    <logger name="com.plesk">
            <level value="TRACE" />
    </logger>
    <logger name="com.parallels">
            <level value="TRACE" />
    </logger>
    <root>
            <level value="INFO" />
            <appender-ref ref="POA" />
    </root>
    </log4j:configuration>
    

    Windows:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd">
    <log4j:configuration>
    <appender name="POA"
    class="com.plesk.p2.turbine.services.logging.RollingFileAppender">
    <param name="Append" value="true" />
    <param name="MaxSizeBackupIndex" value="10" />
    <param name="MaxTimeBackupIndex" value="5" />
    <param name="File" value="C:\\\\Program Files (x86)\\\\SWsoft\\\\PEM\\\\Logs\\\\pemui\\poa-ui" />
    <param name="DatePattern" value="'.'yyyy-MM-dd" />
    <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
        <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{ISO8601} %-10.10X{sid} %-5.5t %-6p %-20.20c{1} %m%n" />
    </layout>
    </appender>
    <logger name="OUT">
    <level value="DEBUG" />
    </logger>
    <logger name="ERR">
    <level value="DEBUG" />
    </logger>
    <logger name="Debug">
    <level value="DEBUG" />
    </logger>
    <logger name="CORBA">
    <level value="DEBUG" />
    </logger>
    <logger name="com.plesk">
    <level value="TRACE" />
    </logger>
    <logger name="com.parallels">
    <level value="TRACE" />
    </logger>
    <root>
    <level value="INFO" />
    <appender-ref ref="POA" />
    </root>
    

  2. Restart pemui and pem syslogd services.

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