Linux Log-Files

The logfiles to pay most attention to when running Watchmaker on Enterprise Linux distros (Red Hat, CentOS, Oracle Enterprise, etc.) are as follows:

• The /var/log/watchmaker/watchmaker.log Log-File
• The /var/log/watchmaker/salt_call.debug.log Log-File
• The /var/log/messages Log-File
• The /var/log/cloud-init.log Log-File
• The /var/log/cloud-init-output.log Log-File

The above are specifed in the order most-frequently used to determine execution issues.

Note that the troubleshooting discussions assume that watchmaker execution has been effected directly through the cloud-init service. If watchmaker is being executed by other means, the above files may have no relevance to issues encountered running watchmaker (the cloud-init.log and cloud-init-output.log), may not exist in the documented-locations (salt_call.debug.log and watchmaker.log) and may not even exist at all (watchmaker.log).