Configure JasperReports Server to Write Logs To Additional File

Use Case

Customer would like to configure TIBCO JasperReports^® Server to write logs to one more file in Catalina logs folder, in addition to

WEB-INF/logs/jasperserver.log

default one.

Resolution

By default, TIBCO JasperReports^® Server  writes logs to

${jasperserver.root}/WEB-INF/logs/jasperserver.log

log file. This is configured in WEB-INF/log4j.properties.

In order to write logs to one more file, a new logger (let's call it catalinaOut) should be added to log4j.rooLogger property:

log4j.rootLogger=ERROR, stdout, fileout, catalinaOut

and the appender details:

# additionally, write to catalina.out
log4j.appender.catalinaOut=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.catalinaOut.File=${catalina.home}/logs/cataline.out
log4j.appender.catalinaOut.MaxFileSize=10MB
log4j.appender.catalinaOut.MaxBackupIndex=2
log4j.appender.catalinaOut.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.catalinaOut.layout.ConversionPattern=%p %t %c - %m%n

Server restart required.

Solution tested with TIBCO JasperReports^® Server v.7.1.0

AS-20190225