Using Windows Powershell Cmdlets with ULS Logging

ULS provides Windows PowerShell cmdlets for a number of operations, including:

• Changing ULS configuration settings
• Trace and Event Level throttling
• Flushing current log and starting a new one
• Querying and filtering Trace Logs
• Merging Trace Logs from multiple machines

CmdLet Examples
Noun	Description	Purpose
Get-SPDiagnosticConfig	Retrieves Diagnostic Configuration values.	Diagnostic Configuration
Set-SPDiagnosticConfig	Allows setting Diagnostic Configuration values.	Diagnostic Configuration
Get-SPLogLevel	Returns IDiagnosticsLevel2 objects or displays a list of diagnostics levels.	Trace Log and Event Log Throttling
Set-SPLogLevel	Allows the user to set the trace and event level for a set of categories.	Trace Log and Event Log Throttling
Clear-SPLogLevel	Resets the trace and event levels back to their default values.	Trace Log and Event Log Throttling
New-SPLogFile	Ends the current log file and starts a new one.	Log File Control
Get-SPLogEvent	Reads/queries ULS trace logs.	Trace Log Querying and Filtering
Merge-SPLogFile	Combines trace log files from all farm servers into a single file.	Trace Log Merging