Enable geocoding error logging

Summary

Instructions provided describe how to enable geocoding error logging, which helps while troubleshooting problems.

Note:
An error log is created if the Address Locator does not generate any errors.

Procedure

• Window Clients
  1. Set the following environment variables. Navigate to Start > Settings > Control Panel > System, select the Advanced tab and click the Environment Variables button. Click the Add button and enter the following:
  
  Variable name: LOCATION_VERBOSE=1
  Variable value: LOCATION_ERRLOG=C:\Temp\location.errlog
  
  2. Restart ArcCatalog and create the locator. The file C:\location.errlog is created.
• ArcSDE Server
  1. Open the file dbinit.sde located in the %SDEHOME%\etc folder in Notepad.
  
  2. Add the following lines;
  
  

  Code:
  LOCATION_VERBOSE=1
  LOCATION_ERRLOG=c:\Temp\location.errlog
  

  
  3. Restart the ArcSDE Application Service.