85.11 Enabling RTI Distributed Logger in Persistence Service

Persistence Service provides integrated support for RTI Distributed Logger (see 67.6 RTI Distributed Logger).

Distributed Logger is included in Connext but it is not supported on all platforms; see the RTI Connext Core Libraries Platform Notes to see which platforms support Distributed Logger.

When you enable Distributed Logger, Persistence Service will publish its log messages to Connext. Then you can use RTI Monitor1 RTI Monitor is a separate GUI application that can run on the same host as your application or on a different host. to visualize the log message data. Since the data is provided in a Connext topic, you can also use rtiddsspy or even write your own visualization tool.

To enable Distributed Logger, modify the Persistence Service XML configuration file. In the <administration> section, add the <distributed_logger> tag as shown in the example below.

<persistence_service name="default">
    ...
    <administration>
        ...
        <distributed_logger>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
        </distributed_logger>
    ...
    </administration>
    ...
</persistence_service>

There are more configuration tags that you can use to control Distributed Logger’s behavior. For example, you can specify a filter so that only certain types of log messages are published. For details, see 67.6.2 Enabling Distributed Logger in RTI Services.