CMTrace Client Logs Cheat Sheet - cmtrace-dot-exe/Win_10_OSD GitHub Wiki

Tired of manually ctrl+clicking a dozen ConfigMgr log files in CMTrace and merging them, only to discover an hour later that you forgot to include the one crucial log file that had the information you needed?

Yeah, me too.

You'll find six "cheat sheet" shortcuts for common troubleshooting scenarios below. Simply paste the quoted filenames into the File Name field in CMTrace's Open dialogue box:

Don't forget to select Merge selected lines!

Do yourself a favor and drop the plaintext version of this file in the same place you store CMTrace:

This list is a lot more useful when it lives right next door to CMTrace.

Client Logs Location

"%windir%\CCM\Logs"

Client Registration

"CcmMessaging.log" "Ccmexec.log" "ClientIDManagerStartup.log" "ClientLocation.log" "ClientServicing.log" "LocationServices.log"

Desired Configuration Management

"DCMAgent.log" "DCMReporting.log" "CIAgent.log" "CIDownloader.log" "CIStateStore.log" "CIStore.log"

Hardware Inventory

"CcmMessaging.log" "InventoryAgent.log" "mtrmgr.log" "VirtualApp.log"

Software Distribution

"execmgr.log" "ContentTransferManager.log" "DataTransferService.log" "FileBITS.log" "LocationServices.log"

Policy

"CcmMessaging.log" "PolicyAgent.log" "PolicyAgentProvider.log" "PolicyEvaluator.log"

Windows Update

(CMTrace apparently has a 260 character limit on the "File Name" field in its Open dialogue box, so we have to hop in a time machine and break out some 8.3 naming truncation in order to make the names of these 16 log files fit:)

"CIAgent.log" "CIDown~1.log" "CIStat~1.log" "CIStore.log" "Conten~1.log" "DCMAgent.log" "DCMRep~1.log" "DataTr~1.log" "Mainte~1.log" "ScanAg~1.log" "Schedu~1.log" "Servic~1.log" "Update~1.log" "Update~2.log" "Update~3.log" "WUAHan~1.log"

For your reference, here are the proper names of the above files: "ContentTransferManager.log" "DataTransferService.log" "DCMAgent.log" "DCMReporting.log" "MaintenanceCoordinator.log" "ScanAgent.log" "Scheduler.log" "ServiceWindowManager.log" "UpdatesDeployment.log" "CIAgent.log" "CIDownloader.log" "CIStateStore.log" "CIStore.log" "UpdatesHandler.log" "UpdatesStore.log" "WUAHandler.log"