VB 4.x: What are the different logLevel values for Name Service and what do they mean?

Problem:

• Product Name: VisiBroker Java
• Product Version: 4.x to 6.x
• Product Component: Name Service/Logging
• Platform: All

What are the different logLevel values for Name Service and what do they mean?

Resolution:

Log level values for the following properties are mentioned below:

• vbroker.orb.logLevel
• vbroker.poa.logLevel
• vbroker.naming.logLevel
• vbroker.security.logLevel (See NOTE #1 below)

Log levels has a numeric value as well as a corresponding text value. Either one could be used. The description explains under which situations would information be logged:

• EMERG or 0 : System is unusable. A panic condition.(That is the default)
• ALERT or 1 : A condition that should be corrected immediately, such as a corrupted system database.
• CRIT or 2 : Critical conditions, such as hard device errors.
• ERR or 3 : Error conditions
• WARNING or 4 : Warning conditions
• NOTICE or 5 : Conditions that are not error conditions, but that may require special handling
• INFO or 6 : Informational
• DEBUG or 7 : Debug messages meant to be understood only by developers.

These are not internationalized

NOTE:

1. "vbroker.security.logLevel" uses ONLY the numeric format of the log level values (0-7).
2. Any numeric value higher than 7 is also considered DEBUG.
3. The text values are NOT case-sensitive.
4. The above values were verified against VBJ 4.5.1.
5. These logging properties are deprecated from VB 7.0 onwards. Please refer to the new Debug Logging properties.