Download OBIEE 11g server logs from Enterprise manager

 When we face some trouble in OBIEE 11g, we always search for the log files to find out the cause. 

Examples of log files are 

 1) Presentation Services log (sawlog.log)
 2) Server log (nqserver.log & nqquery.log)
 3) Schedule log (nqscheduler.log)
 4) JavaHost log (jh.log)
 5) Cluster Controller log (nqcluster.log)

 6) OPMN log (opmn.log)

 To get/view this files either you have to connect to the server using ssh(putty) or filezilla(ftp). Sometime you will not have server login passwords. So in this case getting these files are very difficult. 

 Here is the tip to download the above log files directly from OBIEE 11g Enterprise manager.

Step 1: Login to EM.

Step 2: Right click on the "bifoundation_domain", then "Logs" and select "View Log Messages".

Step 3: You will see the log files screen as below.

Step 4: Expand "Selected Targets" as shown below and you will see the log files here.

Step 5: Then select desired server log and click on the "view log file" ( Marked with red color in the screenshot).

Step 6: Here you can either view the required log or you can directly download the entire log file in to your local machine.

 Similarly you can follow the same steps for downloading other log files also.