Questions about tomcat logs

[peter79]

Guys,

I was clearing up some disk space on my vCenter server (I'm running 4.1.0 258902) and I found some massive log files (one in particular was over 1 GB) in the tomcat logs directory (c:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\tomcat\logs\).

As far as I'm aware tomcat is the webserver that vCenter uses, we done use web access so I'm confused as to where this log came from.  I have a few questions.

What is the purpose of these logs?

What could generate such a large log file?

Is there a way to prevent a log this size bieng generated?

Thanks in advance guys. 

[patrickbuller]

I just noticed the same thing and would be curious to know the answer.

[ranjitcool]

Hello,

Have you opened up the logs and looked at them.

What is your logging level set to?

In vcenter, go to vcetner server settings - there you will see the logging option which is typically set to normal/informational logging.

Is it set to normal or Trivia?

RJ