Understanding the Cluster Debug Log in 2008

re: Understanding the Cluster Debug Log in 2008

Johnson — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:54:40 GMT

Nice topic and explanation

re: Understanding the Cluster Debug Log in 2008

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:51:45 GMT

Good information provided, but I tend to agree with most of Paul's comments. If this information is so critical to support, why not treat it as such instead of using a system that allows for unnoticed loss of events?

re: Understanding the Cluster Debug Log in 2008

Paul — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:42:21 GMT

Really confusing and non standard log generation process.

You have a log thats used for critical systems and you lose messages because you assume customers back them up before they fill up

You provide no monitoring functionality to detect how full they are

You dont raise a message when log entries have been thrown away.

You dont make a backup before you chuck these entries into the ether.

You dont cycle logs in a standard fashion.

Its completely unacceptable to chuck away log entries on a critical system

This really could be done better, its ill thought out, Im not a happy cluster customers.

re: Understanding the Cluster Debug Log in 2008

Jon Cavallo — Tue, 03 May 2011 19:58:56 GMT

Thanks for all the great information. However, I have one question. How can I tail the log like I used to be able to do with previous versions of the cluster.log. The closest that I could get was to start a TRACERPT connected to the Real-Time Event Trace and output a CSV file. But I can't tail the CSV file because it is locked or in-use.

Please help thanks.

re: Understanding the Cluster Debug Log in 2008

Scott — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:44:43 GMT

Fantastic, this article told me more than a lazy Microsoft Escalation Engineer (who I have a cluster issue with) wanted me to raise a new case to tell me why our cluster log was missing a whole month. The stitching of the 3 logs together explains it...

Thankfully I decided not to raise a new case and waste time and money. I decided to search the internet for the answer and found this article quicker than it would of taken me to raise a new Microsoft case ;-)

re: Understanding the Cluster Debug Log in 2008

Ashfak — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:37:12 GMT

Brillant. Just what I was looking for. Many thanks

re: Understanding the Cluster Debug Log in 2008

Vickey Rihal — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:18:31 GMT

This was brilliant.....

Thanks a lot man..... I was searching for it since a long time ago

re: Understanding the Cluster Debug Log in 2008

ISMAIL — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:51:23 GMT

Magnificient

My friend, you'll never know how much I've been looking for this

thanks very much

re: Understanding the Cluster Debug Log in 2008

Arun — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:28:20 GMT

Excellent information on the cluster logging.