Ingest Logs of Oracle Diagnostic Logging (ODL) Format
Oracle Diagnostic Logging (ODL) is an industry-wide accepted format for writing diagnostic messages to log files. The log file can be in ODL text format or ODL XML format. Most Oracle Fusion Middleware components, Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System products, and other Oracle applications write diagnostic log files in the ODL format.
Oracle Logging Analytics provides Oracle-defined log sources to match the ODL format to be able to support several Oracle applications:
Oracle-defined Source | Entity type |
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FMW OHS Diagnostic Logs (V11) |
Oracle HTTP Server |
FMW OHS Diagnostic Logs (V12) |
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FMW OID Directory Control Logs |
Oracle Internet Directory |
FMW OID Directory Dispatcher Server Logs |
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FMW OID Directory Replication Server Logs |
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FMW OID Directory Server Logs |
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FMW OID Monitor Logs |
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Fusion Apps Diagnostic Logs |
WebLogic Server |
FMW BI Publisher Logs |
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FMW BI JBIPS Logs |
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FMW WLS Server Diagnostic Logs |
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Oracle VM Manager Diagnostic Logs |
Oracle VM Manager |
Overall Flow for Collecting ODL Logs
The following are the high-level tasks for collecting log information from your host:
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Install Management Agents on your log-emitting hosts. See Set Up Continuous Log Collection From Your Hosts.
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Create the entity. See Create an Entity to Represent Your Log-Emitting Resource.
- Identify a log source from the existing set of sources, both Oracle-defined and user-defined. If the existing source is not suitable for your requirement, then create a source. See Create a Source for Diagnostic Logs in ODL Format.
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Associate the entities with the source that you created earlier. See Configure New Source-Entity Association.
After the association is complete, the logs start flowing into Oracle Logging Analytics.
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View log data in the Log Explorer by selecting the Windows Event source that you created earlier. See Filter Logs by Source Attributes.