Showing posts with label Debug. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Debug. Show all posts

Friday, 23 January 2015

To Enable Verbose Logging on PkgXferMgr Component

 

Open Regedit and point to below key and change value to 0 of LoggingLevel

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Tracing\SMS_PACKAGE_TRANSFER_MANAGER\LoggingLevel to 0

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SCCM Site Server Package /DP Related Log files.

Pkgxfermgr.log: package transfer manager is a component that is used to send/copy bits from a primary site to a remote distribution point.    

Distmgr.log: this is the primary log file that logs everything related to creation, modification, deletion and distribution of content.

Despooler.log: Despooler is the component that receives and processes content distributed between sites and this log file logs messages related to processing of content received from another site (like a parent site)

Sender.log: sender is the component that sends/copies content bits between sites (like from a parent site to a child primary site).

Schedule.Log Records schedule tasks for all client operations

SCCM Client side Debug Enable

 

SCCM 2012 Client side Debug enable for extended troubleshooting

You can enable the registry key to get more detailed information to log in the SCCM logs, which can help to troubleshoot.

Open Regedit and point to below Hive,

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CCM\Logging\@Global

Change the value for “LogLevel” to “0

 

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CCM\Logging

DebugLogging create a new string value called Enabled and give it a value of True

Restart the SCCM Client services.

SCCM Console Debug Options

 

For extending SCCM Console related Debug troubleshooting issues:

SCCM Console will be installed as 32 bit application in Installation, Even though SCCM is an X64 bit app.

Console installation folder,

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager\AdminConsole\bin\Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.exe"

By configuring sms:debugview will allow SCCM administrators to get more detailed view of ConfigMgr Console or the ConfigMgr Object Properties View. The object properties view shows more detailed information from SCCM database record for the object/s. to configure Debugview

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager\AdminConsole\bin\Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.exe" /sms:debugview

To start SCCM Console with resting to the defaults view, such as column width and column order. You can start by

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager\AdminConsole\bin\Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.exe" /sms:ResetSettings

What if you want to start SCCM Console in English even though os language is other than English?

Try below

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager\AdminConsole\bin\Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.exe" /sms:culture=<culture>

Refer here for more information on Culture code’s https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.cultureinfo.aspx

Instead of the last viewed node if you wanted to start console at Top Level View

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager\AdminConsole\bin\Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.exe" /sms:NoRestore

For more adebug options for SCCM Console

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/bb693533.aspx