How to monitor (log) traffic between SunOne web server & Weblogic app

Hi All. I'm newbie in SunOne web server and desperately need help. I really dunno how to move forward.

Scenario:

In my environment, I have a WebLogic application server and a SunOne web server.

My understand of Http flow is below:

Request: Browser -> Web Server -> Plugin -> WebLogic

Response: Browser <- Web Server <- Plugin <- WebLogic

Help Needed:

I m looking for how to monitor/trace the traffic flow between WebServer and WebLogic.

In WebLogic, I have access.log that list down all http request from Web Server.

I need any log that list down http flow from WebLogic back to the plugin/Web Server. Is there any way i can configure?

Thanks alot alot alot.

Regards,

Cheong

[786 byte] By [cheongww] at [2007-11-26 11:51:44]
# 1
You can use ethereal: http://www.ethereal.com/ for this job. It is free and very flexible network protocol analyzer.Use ethereal logging, collect what you need and analyze collected log files later.
Sultal at 2007-7-7 12:07:03 > top of Java-index,Web & Directory Servers,Web Servers...
# 2
Thanks for your reply. However, I could not use your suggestion as I m not able to use this in production environment.
cheongww at 2007-7-7 12:07:03 > top of Java-index,Web & Directory Servers,Web Servers...
# 3

Well, protocol analysers are mostly used in production environments when there is a need to track down network/protocol related issues.

I doubt that you can find anything other than some network sniffer to do this type of job. I'd say even if you are going to raise an issue with BEA against their webserver plugin, they would probably ask you to use some network protocol sniffer to record what is passed btw weblogic and Sun webserver.

Sultal at 2007-7-7 12:07:03 > top of Java-index,Web & Directory Servers,Web Servers...