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Accessing Service Record Files
Accessing Service Record Files
In this section...
“Locating Log Files” on page 2-13
“Locating Checkpoint Directories” o n page 2- 1 4
The services of MATLAB Distributed Computing Engine g enerate various
record files in the normal course of their ope rations. The mdce service, job
manager, and wo r ke r sessions all ge nerate such files. The types of information
stored by the services are described in this section.
Locating Log Files
Log files for each service contain entries for the service’s operations. These
might b e of particular interest to the network administrator in cases when
problems arise.
Platform File Locati
on
Windows On Windows s
ystems, the default location of
the log file
sis
<TEMP>\MDCE\Log,where<TEMP>
is the value
of the system
TEMP variable. For
example, i
f
TEMP is set to C: \TEM P,thenthelog
files are p
laced in
C:\TEMP\MDCE\Log.
You can set
alternative locations for the log
files by mo
difying the
LOGBASE setting in the
mdce_def
.bat
file before starting the mdce
service.
UNIX and M
acintosh
On UNIX an
d Macintosh systems, the default
location
of the log files is
/var/log/mdce/.
You can se
t alternative locations for the log
files by
modifying the
LOGBASE setting in the
mdce_de
f.sh
file before starting the mdce
service
.
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