[Ejbca-develop] Fwd: Disable all logging to DB

[Arshad N. <ars...@st...>]

Any suggestions on how to address this?  Thanks.

Arshad

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> From: Arshad Noor <ars...@st...>
> Date: July 12, 2012 1:17:56 PM PDT
> To: ejb...@li...
> Subject: Disable all logging to DB
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The "Maximizing Performance" section of the Admin Guide has this line:
> 
> "Disable logging to database in log.properties, only use Log4jLogDevice. This removes a database insert and gives a big boost."
> 
> Additionally, the log.properties file in the $EJBCA_HOME/conf indicates:
> 
> # Internal EJBCA logging device that writes to the database. See logdevices/oldlog.properties.sample for more information.
> OldLogDevice=org.ejbca.core.model.log.OldLogDeviceFactory;logdevices/oldlog.properties
> 
> This seems to imply that by commenting the OldLogDevice line in this
> file and redeploying the EAR, one can turn off DB-logging.  However,
> this does not seem to work.
> 
> Can someone shed some light on how to turn off DB logging completely?
> 
> I am assuming that the server.log file is capturing all events that
> might normally have been logged in the DB.  If this is not true, it
> will be helpful to know what does NOT get logged if DB-logging is
> turned off.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Arshad Noor
> StrongAuth, Inc.