The CMTrace Overview

The purpose of this lecture is not to fix problems. This is an overview of CMTrace.

In this lecture, we will check out the capabilities of CMTrace and hopefully learn some of the tricks that every SCCM administrator should know.

• **What is CMTrace? **

**CMTrace is a real-time Log viewing tool for configuration manager **

• Configuring logging options in Configuration Manager From the ITSCCM01 server, open Configuration Manager

From the Workspace, click Monitoring , from the Navigation Pane double click **System Status or Component Status, in this case click Component Status **

From the Ribbon**, click start, then click Configuration Manager Service Manager. **Click the site you want to manage, in this case ITF is already selected

• Here we will merge three log files into one log file – In this example we will merge the three discovery logs into one log file, and increase the size of the log to 10 MB. This can be useful if you are having problems with some users or computers not getting discovered from Active Directory.

Click the** +** next to ITF , then click components. From component name (on the right) click Security Group discover agent , hold down the shift key, and select User Discovery Agent. With all three selected right click and select logging. Type a file name, in this case, Discovery.log, and type 10 in the log size box, then click ok. Now all three files can be accessed as one file, with a file size of 10MB, before that file will be overwritten.** ** The** location of the discovery.log file is C:\program files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\Logs **

• Now let’s open the CMTrace log file viewer. This program can be located in our SCCM installation folder as indicated.

Right-click on CMTrace.exe and choose pin to taskbar. Click the CMTrace icon. The first time CMTrace opens click yes to make this program the default…