Troubleshooting tools, Part I: ULS viewer

This tool helps us administrators to troubleshoot issues in our SharePoint environments. You just select where your SharePoint logs are (the Usage and Health data collection service must be installed and configured) and you can see the logs in real time.

Where are the logs stored? The logs are stored into the DB of the service, standardly named WSS_loging. The tables are named dbo.ULStracelogs_partition X where X is a value between [0-31], in total 32 tables, a new table per each day.

The advantage and disadvantage is in the same place, the number of servers we might monitor at a certain point.

It´s an easy tool when speaking about an standalone installation or a small SP farm, if we have to monitor a medium to large farm we´ll have to open the tool in each of the servers and monitor at the same time, neither comfortable nor efficient.

 

Would you like to know more and get the tool?  http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer