Log locations for SAS® Financial Management 5.4 and later in a Windows operating environment


When debugging problems in SAS® Financial Management, you might be asked to send several logs to SAS Technical Support. Below are the default locations for the most commonly requested logs for SAS Financial Management 5.4 and later in a Microsoft Windows environment.

Note: The following are the default log locations, and they might be different in your specific implementation.
In the locations below, .x refers to the minor release number (for example, SAS Financial Management 5.4).

Client-Tier Logs

SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office Log

A specific DLL configuration file needs to be installed in order to enable the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office log. Information about the SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office log is documented in SAS Note 46178, "How to generate the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office log with SAS Financial Management Release 5.3 and later."

Client Log

drive:\Users\user-id\SAS\FinancialManagementStudio\5.x\client.log

Note that the location of this file might be different at your site. Refer to the log4j.properties file that is located in the SAS Financial Management Studio installation directory, which is typically located in the SAS-installation-directory\SASFinancialManagementStudio\5.x directory.

Middle-Tier Logs

SAS Content Server

SAS-configuration-directory\Lev1\Web\Logs\SASServer1_1\SASContentServer9.x.log

SAS Portal

SAS-configuration-directory\Lev1\Web\Logs\SASServer1_1\SASPortal4.x.log

SAS Financial Management

SAS-configuration-directory\Lev1\Web\Logs\SASServer3_1\SASFinancialManagement5.x.log

SAS Financial Management Web Data Entry

SAS-configuration-directory\Lev1\Web\Logs\SASServer5_1\SASFinancialManagementWebDataEntry5.x.log

SAS ODCS for Solutions

SAS-configuration-directory\Lev1\Web\Logs\SASServer4_1\SASODCSForSolutions5.x.log

SAS Server1

SAS-configuration-directory\Lev1\Web\WebAppServer\SASServer1_1\logs\server.log

SAS Server2

SAS-configuration-directory\Lev1\Web\WebAppServer\SASServer2_1\logs\server.log

SAS Server3

SAS-configuration-directory\Lev1\Web\WebAppServer\SASServer3_1\logs\server.log

SAS Server4

SAS-configuration-directory\Lev1\Web\WebAppServer\SASServer4_1\logs\server.log

SAS Server5

SAS-configuration-directory\Lev1\Web\WebAppServer\SASServer5_1\logs\server.log

Application-Tier Logs

SAS® Metadata Server

SAS-configuration-directory\Lev1\SASMeta\MetadataServer\Logs\SASMeta_MetadataServerddmmmyy.log
ddmmmyy represents the date of the log file. Be sure to send the log file with the most recent date and time stamp.

SAS Object Spawner

SAS-configuration-directory\Lev1\ObjectSpawner\Logs\ObjectSpawner_yyyy-mm-dd_nnn.log
yyyy-mm-dd_nnn represents the date of the log file. Be sure to send the log file with the most recent date and time stamp.

SAS® Stored Process Server

SAS-configuration-directory\Lev1\SASApp\StoredProcessServer\Logs\SASApp_STPServer_yyyy-mm-dd_nnn.log
yyyy-mm-dd_nnn represents the date of the log file. Be sure to send the log file with the most recent date and time stamp.

Workspace Server

SAS-configuration-directory\Lev1\SASApp\WorkspaceServer\Logs\SASApp_WorkspaceServer_yyyy-mm-dd_nnn.log
yyyy-mm-dd_nnn represents the date of the log file. Be sure to send the log file with the most recent date and time stamp.