Escalated Links represent an indirect link between two objects and can be seen in CAST Enlighten.
For example, a child object of one of the parent objects could be linked directly to another parent object, or a child object belonging to one of the parent objects could be linked directly to a child object of another parent object, thus creating an indirect link between the two parent objects.
Escalated Links are represented in CAST Enlighten by a dotted red link between objects and can be expanded to display the constituent objects as you can see in below screenshot
To activate the Escalated links, you have to check the option in CAST MS, in the production tab as shown in the below screenshot.
For more information, refer to the CAST Management Studio Help Online : CAST Management Studio - Help > Infrastructure > Editor > Technology Editors > Common Technology options
In this page, the different logs lines corresponding to the Escalate Links task is listed with functional and technical explanation of the logs that it generates.
CAST-MS-<date>-<time>.log.txt log file
The Escalated links step is logged in the CAST-MS-<date>-<time>.log.txt file. It starts with the key words starting Task Run Escalated Links Calculation on <Application Name>
INF: 2018-11-27 17:05:35: starting Task Run Escalated Links Calculation on "webgoat"
The command line to run the Escalated link is :
INF: 2018-11-27 17:05:35: C:\Program Files\CAST\8.3/CAST-LinksEscalator.jar -driver org.postgresql.Driver -url jdbc:postgresql://localhost:2282/postgres -schema test830_local -user operator -password ***** -projects 301
To get the Project_id (in the above example '301'), go to the page SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on User Project - How to get User Project ID, it gives the query to get the list of project_id and project name.
INF: 2018-11-27 17:05:35: The sub JVM requested maximum memory is reduced from 4096M to 1476138K
INF: 2018-11-27 17:05:35: Defining Log server thread as a new logging context without any writers
INF: 2018-11-27 17:05:37: Links Escalator Copyright (c) 2018 CAST
The processing to generate the Escalated links is starting
INF: 2018-11-27 17:05:38: Connected to: jdbc:postgresql://localhost:2282/postgres user: operator
INF: 2018-11-27 17:05:39: Loading links on project #529301...
INF: 2018-11-27 17:05:39: 1 links loaded in: 9 ms
INF: 2018-11-27 17:05:39: Escalating links on project #529301...
INF: 2018-11-27 17:05:39: 15 links escalated in: 9 ms
INF: 2018-11-27 17:05:39: Saving escalated links on project #529301...
INF: 2018-11-27 17:05:39: Escalated links saved in: 212 ms
INF: 2018-11-27 17:05:39: Loading links on project #5448...
INF: 2018-11-27 17:05:40: 18909 links loaded in: 32 ms
INF: 2018-11-27 17:05:40: Escalating links on project #5448...
INF: 2018-11-27 17:05:45: 437444 links escalated in: 5449 ms
INF: 2018-11-27 17:05:45: Saving escalated links on project #5448...
INF: 2018-11-27 17:05:59: Escalated links saved in: 13922 ms
INF: 2018-11-27 17:06:02: Loading links on project #5445...
INF: 2018-11-27 17:06:02: 0 links loaded in: 0 ms
INF: 2018-11-27 17:06:02: Escalating links on project #5445...
INF: 2018-11-27 17:06:02: 0 links escalated in: 15 ms
INF: 2018-11-27 17:06:02: Saving escalated links on project #5445...
INF: 2018-11-27 17:06:02: Escalated links saved in: 328 ms
Summary of the Escalated link process : Number of Escalated links created
INF: 2018-11-27 17:06:03: Links escalated in 25329 ms, 480934 links created [rate: 18987 links/s]
INF: 2018-11-27 17:06:03: Detailed durations ==> Links loading: 56 ms, links escalation: 6072 ms, links saving: 17788 ms
INF: 2018-11-27 17:06:03: Done!
INF: 2018-11-27 17:06:03: Task message: No Task message
INF: 2018-11-27 17:06:03: No associated log file
INF: 2018-11-27 17:06:03: ending Task Run Escalated Links Calculation on "webgoat"