Article ID: 244586
Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack 3
This article was previously published under Q244586
SUMMARY
If you use the Exchange Server Mailbox Manager add-in utility included in Exchange Server version 5.5 Service Pack 3, you can configure up to five logging levels. Each level is unique and gives you different information.
This article describes the different logging levels and the uses for each level.
MORE INFORMATION
The logging level, which is set on the Advanced tab, determines what information is captured by the trace log files and the application event log. The logging level has no effect on the information in the administrator's report.
| Logging Level | Event Log | Trace Log |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Critical Errors | None |
| 2 | Start, Stop, Critical Errors, and Summary | None |
| 3 | Start, Stop, Critical Errors, and Summary | Mailbox level statistics |
| 4 | Start, Stop, Critical Errors, and Summary | Mailbox and folder level statistics |
| 5 | Start, Stop, Critical Errors, and Summary | Mailbox and folder level statistics with full trace information |
The summary message that is sent to the application event log is in the same format as the message that is sent to the administrator. Mailbox and folder level statistics, as well as full trace information, are captured in the trace log.
Entries in the Application Event Log
If you set the logging level to 2 or higher, a summary message is logged in the application event log that is similar to the following:
If the run is unsuccessful, the following message is logged:
Trace Log
The trace log captures information such as: the object that was affected by the Mailbox Manager utility, the number of messages that were deleted, the type of event that took place, and the time of a given deletion. Trace log titles are in a MCAyyyymmdd.log format, where yyyy is the year, mm the month, and dd the day. They can be found in the same folder that the Mailbox Manager utility is installed in (the C:\Mbxman folder by default). Trace logs are in CSV format and can be opened in any spreadsheet application, for example, Microsoft Excel. Trace log files can be very large; delete unwanted log files periodically to recover disk space.
Note If you set the logging level to either 3, 4, or 5, the location where the MCAyyyymmdd.log files are written may fill up and cause the Exchange Server services to stop. For additional information, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
163913 IS or DS stops due to lack of drive space for log files
170809 Exchange services stop due to low disk space
For more information regarding the Exchange Server Mailbox Manager utility, download the support files on the FTP site from the same Sp3_55ss.exe file that the utility is installed from. After you extract the support files, see the User Guide in the Support\language\Server\Support\Mbmngr\Setup\platform folder (for example, Support\Eng\Server\Support\Mbmngr\Setup\I386\Mbmanug.htm).
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