Siebel Mobile Client Debugging (Using Environment Variable)

We often come across errors and problems in Siebel application whose source cannot be easily identified. The standard spooling (/s method in the Target of the siebel exe) of queries is helpful many times.
But many other times there is need of more detailed logging than the one produced by simple spool.
I am listing an already existing very simple method of detailed logging here. Many of you might already be aware and using this method. I have always found this method gives me the exact source of the problem.
Ok so say you are getting an error, which cannot be linked to any configuration or any change you have done.

The steps to increase the logging detail are:
1. Right-Click My Computer select Properties.
2. Goto Advanced tab in the system properties.
3. Click on the environment variables
4. In the environment variables window, create a new system variable by clicking the New button
5. Add variable name as SIEBEL_LOG_EVENTS, the variable value can be 4 or 5. I would recommend using value 4 to start, if that is not helpful increase it to 5.
6. Restart the system after making this change.
7. Start the Siebel application, reproduce the problem which needs debugging.
8. Goto the Log folder in the Webclient directory, open the Siebel.log file (it will be large in size) present there.
9. Search for error in this log file.

IMPORTANT: Remember to remove this System Variable after you are done with your debugging, otherwise the size of the file will go on increasing and eat up you system memory. And yes you will again need to restart your system for the removal to take effect.

The size of the log file generated by using this method is quite large. It might become a bit difficult to handle these files if you are not used to handling very large files. You can use the wordpad to open these files which will be a little bit faster than usual notepad. I use a different method involving a file splitting tool. I will handle that in my next post.

Have a successful debugging!!!