Repeatedly debug messaged from X509ServletFilterBase

[mtsiak]

We are trying to upgrade from 5.0 to 2017-04 edition.

Among other errors we get the above debug message:

2017-07-18 16:25:01,062  DEBUG [scripts.servlet.X509ServletFilterBase] [http-bio-127.0.0.1-8443-exec-5] Enforcing X509 request
2017-07-18 16:25:01,063  DEBUG [scripts.servlet.X509ServletFilterBase] [http-bio-127.0.0.1-8443-exec-5] Checking cert is valid
2017-07-18 16:25:01,063  DEBUG [scripts.servlet.X509ServletFilterBase] [http-bio-127.0.0.1-8443-exec-5] Cert is valid

It is unstopably repeated, filling our logs. Any ideas why this happens?

Thanks in advance.

[afaust · Accepted solution]

You should configure the log level via custom-log4j.properties to a higher level for the X509ServletFilterBase class. Apparently it is set to DEBUG and that is why you are seeing many messages. Generally, you should never have DEBUG enabled on an acceptance / production environment (except for specific short issue debug phases when the issue cannot be reproduced elsewhere). DEBUG is supposed to be used for development / test environments.

[mtsiak]

we added to tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/custom-log4j.properties

log4j.logger.org.alfresco.web.scripts.servlet=warn

thank you