Lync Server Cookbook

Tracing from a command line with OCSTracer

The OCSTracer.exe tool is a command-line utility (part of the Lync Server 2013 Debugging Tools, as the previous tools), which enables logging from a command line. We will see some practical examples in this section.

How to do it...

1. From a command line, go to the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Lync Server 2013\Debugging Tools folder and run the following command to log the S4 component, with verbose level (TL_Verbose) on the TF_Component as follows:

   ocstracer start /component:S4,TL_Verbose,TF_Component
   

2. To stop all the tracing, we can use the ocstracer stop command. If we want to stop only a part of the tracing, we have to launch a command similar to the one used for the launch, replacing start with stop.
3. We will ...