Very Computer

Quote:> I am looking for advice on how to handle error reporting within a CORBA-based
> application.

> What we have today is a log file class in both the client and server which
> writes error messages to text files on the local disk. The log file class is
> local to each process, so we create a file per running client and one per
> running server. There are multiple clients to a server; each of the files is
> uniquely identified by either the server name or the terminal the client is
> running on. Each running server has a unique 'name' even if multiple instances
> of an executable are running.

> As we scale up to several thousand users some of the staff here are concerned
> about the number of files we could create. One of the suggestions is to have
> a CORBA error logging server(ice) which both the clients and the servers use
> one way messages to communicate with. Future consideration is SNMP error
> systems and interfaces into products like OpenView etc.

I suggest you have a look at the Telecom Logging Service. It sounds like
a close fit for your requirements.

        ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/docs/telecom/98-12-02.pdf

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