SharePoint 2010 Server Farm Configuration Part 2

This is continuation of series SharePoint Server Farm configuration. In part 1, I explained how to configure usage and health data collection and this part 2, I am going to explain about diagnostic logging configuration.

Diagnostic Logging Configuration:

As James Pyles said beautifully in his book “Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Configuration” Diagnostic logging “takes the pulse” of SharePoint relative to specific events, letting you detect and ideally prevent potential problems.

 Diagnostic has some default setting which you can change e.g. location where you want to save log file, limit the amount of space for logging, backup log files and so on.

I am going to explain steps of configuring diagnostic logging using SharePoint 2010 Central Admin website.

Note: You must be member of Farm Administrators group to perform this task.

1.       On the Central Administration page, click Monitoring.

2.       On the Monitoring page under Reporting, click Configure Diagnostic Logging.

3.       On the Diagnostic logging page, under Event Throttling, you can select the All Categories check box to enable event throttling for all events, or you can expand each event and granularly configure throttling to meet your specific requirements.

4.       Use the Least Critical Event To Report To The Event Log menu to select one of the following:

None

Critical

Error

Warning

Information

Verbose

5.       Use the Least Critical Event To Report To The Trace Log menu to select one of the following:

None

Unexpected

 Monitorable

High

Medium

Verbose

6.       Under Event Log Flood Protection, verify that the Enable Event Log Flood Protection check box is selected.

7.       Under Trace Log, either accept the default path for the location where the traces log will be written or specify a path. The location must exist on all servers in the farm.

8.       In the Number of Days to Store the Log Files field, accept the default value of 14 or specify a value.

9.       You can restrict the amount of disk space used by Trace log, Just click checkbox in restrict trace log disk space usage area and specify maximum storage space for Trace Logs.

Click Ok and apply all these settings. I hope you must be enjoying this multi part series of SharePoint Server Farm Configguration. Please don't forget to post your comments thanks :)