Re: [Quickfixj-users] rolling log files

[Oded K. <od...@gm...>]

I thought that for some reason i can have 1 logger and 1 appender for all
files. thanks for clearing that up!
working fine now


Oded


On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Colin DuPlantis <co...@ma...>
wrote:

> QuickFIX/J Documentation: http://www.quickfixj.org/documentation/
> QuickFIX/J Support: http://www.quickfixj.org/support/
>
>
>
> Yes, you are passing the logFactory to the initiator. In order to use
> SLF4J, it has to be the correct log factory (SLF4JLogFactory). We can't
> tell that for sure from the code you've provided, but let's assume it is
> the correct one.
>
> SLF4J is a log front end that allows you to use a number of different
> logger backends. Log4j2 is one of them, but not the only one you can use.
> Let's assume that you're using the correct log4j2 runtime jars to use
> log4j2.
>
> If both those are true, then, yes, you can have a different log file for
> each fix session. In your configuration, set the *SLF4JLogEventCategory *option
> (see the QFJ doc) to use the variables of the session as part of the
> category. Set up different loggers for each session and different appenders.
>
> Suppose I have two sessions: FIX.4.2:ME->SESSION1 and FIX.4.2:ME->SESSION2.
>
> I can set up two different appenders in log4j2.xml:
>
>     <RollingRandomAccessFile name="ME-SESSION1"
> fileName="logs/me-session1.log" filePattern="logs/me-session1-%i.log.gz"
> append="true">
>       <PatternLayout pattern="%d{DATE} %m%n"/>
>       <Policies>
>         <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="100 MB"/>
>       </Policies>
>       <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="1000"/>
>     </RollingRandomAccessFile>
>
>
>     <RollingRandomAccessFile name="ME-SESSION2"
> fileName="logs/me-session2.log" filePattern="logs/me-session2-%i.log.gz"
> append="true">
>       <PatternLayout pattern="%d{DATE} %m%n"/>
>       <Policies>
>         <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="100 MB"/>
>       </Policies>
>       <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="1000"/>
>     </RollingRandomAccessFile>
>
> then, loggers for each:
>
>     <logger name="ME.SESSION1" level="info" additivity="false">
>       <AppenderRef ref="ME-SESSION1"/>
>     </logger>
>     <logger name="ME.SESSION2" level="info" additivity="false">
>       <AppenderRef ref="ME-SESSION2"/>
>     </logger>
>
> your QFJ config would want:
>
> SLF4JLogEventCategory=${senderCompID}.${targetCompID}
>
> You might have to play with this a little, but that's the generate idea.
>
> On 11/12/15 6:23 AM, Oded Kramer wrote:
>
> QuickFIX/J Documentation: http://www.quickfixj.org/documentation/
> QuickFIX/J Support: http://www.quickfixj.org/support/
>
>
>
> i use this line to create the initiator this.sessionConnector = new
> SocketInitiator(this, this.storeFactory, this.settings, this.logFactory,
> messageFactory); you can see this logFactory is passed to the constructor.
>
> the sesstionSettings are configurable using the .cfg file. The requirement
> is to have a rolling log file for each fix session (there are dozens of
> sessions). can i achieve this in the log4j2 file?
>
> thanks,
> Oded
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Colin DuPlantis <co...@ma...>
> wrote:
>
>> QuickFIX/J Documentation: http://www.quickfixj.org/documentation/
>> QuickFIX/J <http://www.quickfixj.org/documentation/%0AQuickFIX/J>
>> Support: http://www.quickfixj.org/support/
>>
>>
>>
>> We use SLF4J as our logging interface with QFJ combined with Log4J2.
>> These two things combined provide log rolling out-of-the-box.
>>
>> Create an instance of SLF4JLogFactory and pass it to your
>> Initiator/Acceptor. At runtime, provide Log4j2 jars as the logging provider.
>>
>> Here's a snippet from a log4j2.xml file that provides log rolling:
>>
>>     <RollingRandomAccessFile name="FILE"
>> fileName="target/logs/application${instanceName}.log"
>> filePattern="target/logs/application${instanceName}-%i.log.gz"
>> append="true">
>>       <PatternLayout pattern="%d{DATE} %5p [%t] %c{3} (%F:%L) - %m%n"/>
>>       <Policies>
>>         <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="100 MB"/>
>>       </Policies>
>>       <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="1000"/>
>>     </RollingRandomAccessFile>
>>
>> This appender will roll a log segment when it gets to be 100 MB, compress
>> it with gzip, and rename it with an ordinal appended to the file name up
>> 1000 segments.
>>
>> On 11/12/15 5:20 AM, Oded Kramer wrote:
>>
>> QuickFIX/J Documentation: http://www.quickfixj.org/documentation/
>> QuickFIX/J Support: http://www.quickfixj.org/support/
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been using QFJ for quite a while now very successfully. I am
>> looking into using rolling files for all Fix Messages log.
>> Any suggestions how should i do this?
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Oded Kramer
>>
>>
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