Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

468 Part VI: Administration of Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
■ Single Sign-On Service
■ Administrative Service
■ Search Service
■ Search Filter Process
■ Backup – Restore
■ Audience Job
■ Third Party Applications
For each component, you can edit the logging level as follows:
■ Do not log event for this component
■ Log critical events only
■ Log informational events and critical events
■ Log tracing information
Note You should select Log Tracing Information only for troubleshooting purposes.
Logging tracing information might affect performance and disk use.
You can also choose to save a copy of the log automatically after a specified
number of days, and you can choose to delete logs automatically after a specified number
of days to save disk space.
View Diagnostic Logs
This section allows for viewing and deleting the log files created by the components
defined in the Logging Settings section just described.
To view and delete diagnostic logs
1. On the SharePoint Portal Server Central Administration For server_name page, in
the Component Configuration section, click Configure diagnostic settings.
2. On the Configure Diagnostic Settings For server_name page, in the View Diagnostic
Logs section, in the Diagnostic logs list, select a diagnostic log, and
then do one of the following:
a. To view the selected log, click View Log.
b. To delete the selected log, click Delete. You cannot delete a log file that
is in use.
c. To delete unused log files, click Delete Unused Log Files.