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+<!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+<Configuration status="WARN">
+  <Appenders>
+    <Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
+      <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/>
+    </Console>
+    <File name="InfoLog" fileName="target/info.log">
+        <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/>
+    </File>
+  </Appenders>
+  <Loggers>
+    <Root level="INFO">
+      <AppenderRef ref="InfoLog"/>
+    </Root>
+    <Logger name="org.apache.hyracks.control.nc.service" level="INFO"/>
+    <Logger name="org.apache.hyracks" level="INFO"/>
+    <Logger name="org.apache.asterix" level="INFO"/>
+    <Logger name="org.apache.hyracks.algebricks" level="TRACE">
+      <AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
+    </Logger>
+    <Logger name="org.apache.hyracks.algebricks" level="TRACE">
+      <AppenderRef ref="InfoLog"/>
+    </Logger>
+    <Logger name="org.apache.asterix.bad.metadata" level="WARN">
+      <AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
+    </Logger>
+  </Loggers>
+</Configuration>