Enabling NCSA access log with wsadmin scrpting

Question

How can someone enable NCSA access log by using wsadmin script.

To view the settings page for an HTTP channels in WAS console we follow these steps: Servers > Server Types > WebSphere application servers > server > Web Container Settings > Web container transport chains > Chain > HTTP inbound channel.

On the console, there is no administrative assistance for this task!! Thank you

Answer 1

Use below snippet. I have added comments for each step.

Update the first two lines - serverName and chainName as per your environment before running this.

serverName = 'server1'
chainName = 'Chain'

#update this variable to true/false to toggle logging on/off
loggingEnabled = 'true'

#Get the server id
serverId = AdminConfig.getid('/Server:%s' %(serverName))

#Get the list of all Web Container transport chains
wcTransportChains = AdminTask.listChains(AdminConfig.list("TransportChannelService", serverId), '[-acceptorFilter WebContainerInboundChannel]').splitlines()

#Iterate the list and find the chain we are interested in 
for chain in wcTransportChains:
    if chain.startswith(chainName):
        #list all transport channles for this chain
        transportChannels = AdminConfig.showAttribute(chain, 'transportChannels').split(" ")
        #iterate the list and find HTTPInboundChannel to enable NCSA logging
        for channel in transportChannels:
            if channel.find('HTTPInboundChannel') != -1:
                #Enable logging config
                print ('\nEnabling NCSA logging for Transport Channel : %s on server : %s\n' %(AdminConfig.showAttribute(channel, 'name'), serverName))
                AdminConfig.modify(channel, [['enableLogging', loggingEnabled]])
            #end if
        #end for
    #end if
#end for

#save the changes
AdminConfig.save()