When enabling the (great) monitoring feature in MDT you create a service that runs in the background. However, if you have a C:\Temp folder on your server (only then), that service will start to log a lot of information to C:\Temp\WCF.log. 5 GB per day has been reported.
My recommendation is (thanks to Anders Ahl for research) to change the logging to:
- Only log warnings, and not information events
- Store the log file on another drive than C:
To do this you simply edit the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Deployment Toolkit\Monitor\microsoft.bdd.monitorservice.exe.config file using notepad:
Change line 12 from
<source name="System.ServiceModel" switchValue="Information, ActivityTracing" propagateActivity="true">
To
<source name="System.ServiceModel" switchValue="Warning, ActivityTracing" propagateActivity="true">
Change line 14 from
<add name="traceListener" type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener" initializeData="c:\temp\WCF.log" />
To
<add name="traceListener" type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener" initializeData="D:\MDTMonitoring\WCF.log" />
To activate the logging you also need to create the D:\MDTMonitoring folder
/ Johan
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