If you are running, for example, IBM Connections as a "large deployment", you got at least 18 JVMs with their corresponding SystemOut.log files to monitor for errors, issues and the likes. Always stating them explicitly was -- for me -- too cumbersome. So I thought of an easier way. This is what I came up with.


According to the documentation, the WebSphere Application Server (WAS) log files are located in the following directories on each node in your WAS installation:
path/profiles/profilename/logs/servername/logs

where path is the WebSphere Application Server installation path. By default, path is the following:
/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer

So in an IBM Connections 5.5 environment, there would be these log files:
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs/PushNotificationCluster_server1/SystemOut.log
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs/NewsCluster_server1/SystemOut.log
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs/HomepageCluster_server1/SystemOut.log
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs/MetricsCluster_server1/SystemOut.log
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs/FebCluster_server1/SystemOut.log
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs/nodeagent/SystemOut.log
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs/WidgetContainerCluster_server1/SystemOut.log
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs/CommunitiesCluster_server1/SystemOut.log
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs/WikisCluster_server1/SystemOut.log
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs/MobileCluster_server1/SystemOut.log
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs/DogearCluster_server1/SystemOut.log
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs/BlogsCluster_server1/SystemOut.log
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs/ModerationCluster_server1/SystemOut.log
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs/CommonCluster_server1/SystemOut.log
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs/SearchCluster_server1/SystemOut.log
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs/RTECluster_server1/SystemOut.log
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs/ForumCluster_server1/SystemOut.log
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs/ActivitiesCluster_server1/SystemOut.log
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs/FilesCluster_server1/SystemOut.log
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs/ProfilesCluster_server1/SystemOut.log

So to get them all in one continuous log stream the following one-liner comes in handy:

find /opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/node01/logs -name SystemOut.log -print0 | xargs --null tail -F