Using Stop for the Centralized Logging Service in Lync Server 2013

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Topic Last Modified: 2012-11-01

You can stop a currently running logging session with the Stop-CsClsLogging cmdlet. Generally, there aren’t many situations in which you would need to stop a logging session. For example, you can search logs and change configurations without first needing to stop logging. If you have two scenarios running, for example AlwaysOn and UserReplicator, and you need to collect information related to Authentication, you will need to stop one of the other scenarios (at a global, site, pool or computer scope) before you can start running to Authentication scenario. For details, see Stop-CsClsLogging.

Note

When determining what scenarios you can run on a given deployment, pool or computer, you need to remember that you are limited to running two scenarios per computer. If you are logging activity on a pool, you should treat a pool as a single entity. In most cases, it would not make sense to run different scenarios on each computer in a pool. It does make sense to look at the problem that you are collecting data about and think about what scenario makes the most sense on a given computer in the overall deployment. For example, if you consider the UserReplicator scenario, there would be very little value in running UserReplicator on an Edge Server or Edge pool.
After you understand the problem and the scope of the impact, you should make careful choices about what scenarios to run on which computers and pools. While the AlwaysOn scenario makes sense for a wide scope application because it collects information on a wide variety of providers, specific scenarios only have application value on specific computers or pools. Also, you should take caution when randomly starting up a logging session without first understanding the value of a given scenario. If you use the wrong scenario, or if you use a scenario that is appropriate for the task and you apply the scenario at the wrong scope (be it global, site, pool, or computer), you can get questionable data that is not very useful—as if you didn't run the scenario at all.

To control the Centralized Logging Service functions by using the Lync Server Management Shell, you must be a member of either the CsAdministrator or the CsServerAdministrator role-based access control (RBAC) security groups, or a custom RBAC role that contains either of these two groups. To return a list of all the RBAC roles this cmdlet has been assigned to (including any custom RBAC roles you have created yourself), run the following command from the Lync Server Management Shell or the Windows PowerShell prompt:

Get-CsAdminRole | Where-Object {$_.Cmdlets -match "Lync Server 2013 cmdlet"}

For example:

Get-CsAdminRole | Where-Object {$_.Cmdlets -match "Set-CsClsConfiguration"}

To stop a currently running Centralized Logging Service session

  1. Start the Lync Server Management Shell: Click Start, click All Programs, click Microsoft Lync Server 2013, and then click Lync Server Management Shell.

  2. Query the Centralized Logging Service to find out what scenarios are currently running by typing the following:

    Show-CsClsLogging

    Windows PowerShell console after calling Show-CsCl

    The result of Show-CsClsLogging is a summary of the scenarios that are running and what scope they are running in. For details, see Show-CsClsLogging.

  3. To stop a currently running logging session with a specific scenario, type:

    Stop-CsClsLogging -Scenario <scenario name> -Computers <comma separated list of fully qualified computer names> -Pools <comma separated list of fully qualified pool names>

    For example:

    Stop-CsClsLogging -Scenario UserReplicator -Pools pool01.contoso.net

    This command will stop logging with the UserReplicatior scenario on pool01.contoso.net.

    Note

    Logs created during this logging session using the UserReplicator scenario are not deleted. The logging is still available for you to execute searches against using the Search-CsClsLogging command. For details, see Search-CsClsLogging.

Acting as the companion command to Start-CsClsLogging, the Stop-CsClsLogging cmdlet ends the logging session, defined by scenarios, and retains the logs created by the logging session. You can run two scenarios on a given computer at any time. The method of stopping one scenario to gather information using another scenario is a common task that you can perform during most workload troubleshooting.