That document contains succint information about the most relevant Installation logfiles generated in default folder %PROGRAMFILES%\SAP\SAPSetup\Setup\LOGs on the Client or server side
Different Installation Logfiles
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| NwSapSetup.log | Is created whenever NwSapSetup.exe is started and contains the actions taken during installation of frontend components, uninstallation, update or while addingor removing single components or packages. |
| NwSapSetupAdmin.log | Is created whenever NwSapSetupAdmin is started. This means it contains information about creating, modifying or deleting packages, configuring the Automatic Workstation Update Service, applying patches to the installation source and so on. |
| NwSapSetupUserNotificationTool.log | Contains information about the tool that displays status messages of the Automatic Workstation Update Service. |
| NwUpdateInstServer.log | I created whenever NwUpdateInstServer.exe is started which is the case when new products are added to an installation source, when a patch is applied or when an installation source is created. In the latter case NwCreateInstServer.exe creates an empty installation source without any products and then NwUpdateInstServer.exe is called in order to import the initial set of products like SAP GUI 7.20, Business Explorer and the usual suspects. |
| gui730_.log | : Is written by the self-extractor used in patches and only contains information about the extraction of files from the patch and cleaning up the temporary installation source after applying the patch. Between the extraction and cleaning up either NwUpdateInstServer.exe is used to update an installation source with the content of the patch or NwSapSetup.exe is started for applying the content of the patch to an installation on a client machine (local patching). The information about applying the content of the patch can then be found either in a NwUpdateInstServer.log or NwSapSetup.log depending on whether an installation source has been patched or a client machine. This log e.g. contains error messages when there is not enough disk space for extracting a patch or when a patch has been broken during download from SAP Service Marketplace due to bad lines or so. |
regsvr.log* | Contains information about registering a certain control. |
Rotating Logfiles
NwSapSetup and the services DS and IS all have their own logfiles. On a client, a maximum of10 NwSapSetup logfiles is created. The most recent one of them is always NwSapSetup.log. If NwSapSetup.log already exists when NwSapSetup is started it will be renamed to NwSapSetup1.log and a new NwSapSetup.log will be created. An already existing NwSapSetup1.log will be renamed to NwSapSetup2.log and so on. The oldest existing NwSapSetup logfile is always NwSapSetup9.log. The same applies to the log files written by e.g. the Distribution Service (DS) or NwCreateInstServer.exe and so on.