Additional Trace Options
4 min
activate allows you to configure additional trace options to output enhanced system messages to either the windows event log or to a log file this can assist with advanced troubleshooting and auditing enabling additional trace options open the configuration file locate and open innovation activate trace config use notepad or another text editor configure event sources find the \<eventsource> entries within \<availableeventsources> copy the desired \<eventsource> entries into either \<eventlog> section for windows event log output, or \<file> section for file based logging enable logging set the enabled attribute on either the \<eventlog> or \<file> tag to enabled="1" file output (optional settings) if outputting to a file , ensure name attribute is set to define the file name maxsize attribute is set to control maximum file size ✅ no restart is required changes are applied immediately to both the web client and service 🛠 tip these trace events match the configurable options available in the activate administrator test tool available event sources event source description access denied logs access denied checks ad access logs all access to active directory ad security logs all active directory security checks config logs detailed trace of configuration actions error logs runtime errors evaluation logs detailed trace of parameter evaluations exchange logs detailed trace of exchange 2000 operations execute logs all job service execution messages internal logs detailed trace of internal errors information general informational logging job logs job event messages resource logs detailed trace of resource usage script logs detailed trace of scripting activities search logs detailed trace of active directory search logic service logs detailed trace of all service operations task parameter logs detailed trace of task parameter evaluations user membership logs user membership checks and information