Hi,
1. You would see green logs in the terminal that launched the rtabmap node.
2. Use rqt_console, it also shows from which file and which line
3. If you use external odometry, the message would indeed come from rtabmap node.
4. Even with the warning, if the warning is coming from rtabmap node, the map should still be constructed from your external odometry. Can you show your rqt_graph? One can suppress warning logs by
changing the logger level for a specific node, but I don't recommend to suppress warning logs.
cheers,
Mathieu