Inside Documentum

Content Server 6 Server Tracing

Loads of D6 documentation is appearing on Powerlink. I’m going through the Content Server Admin Guide over the next few days and I’ll pick out some of the stuff that looks interesting. The first thing that caught my eye was that Tracing and Logging has its own chapter. Previously this was all lumped into the Tools chapter. A very timely revision.

2 important changes here, first sqltrace is now on by default. This means that all the SQL being generated from a DQL command (very often there is a 1-to-many relationship between DQL and SQL) is output to the content server session log. I think this is a great improvement from the troubleshooting and performance tuning aspect.

Secondly there is a new server tracing option called rpctrace. The documentation states ‘Turns on tracing of RPC calls’. I will be having a look at the tracing format and the information being dumped by this trace option as again it is potentially very useful.