Enabling Logging and Tracing for RSVP

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

SUMMARY

Troubleshooting RSVP(QoS) can be made easier by using the different levels of logging and tracing internal to the product.

MORE INFORMATION

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You can use the following registry keys to enable logging and tracing for the resource reservation protocol (RSVP). Each additional level of logging requires additional system resources, so you should enable only the features you need to diagnose a problem.

• EventlogLevel
  Key: System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rsvp\Parameters
  Value Type: REG_DWORD
  Valid Range: 0 - 3
  Default: 0
  Created by Install: No
  Description: This parameter controls the type of events written to the event log. At level 0, only start/stop events, DSBM state change events, and LPM loading error events are logged.



• EnableTracing
  Key: System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rsvp\Parameters
  Value Type: REG_DWORD - BOOLEAN flag
  Valid Range: zero or non-zero
  Default: zero
  Created by Install: No
  Description: If this parameter contains a non-zero value, the RSVP service writes a record to the RSVP tracing file for every RSVP message received or sent. If this key value is missing or contains zero, no trace file records are written by the RSVP service.



• DirectoryToStoreTracefiles
  Key: System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rsvp\Parameters
  Value Type: REG_SZ - directory file path
  Valid Range: Valid file path
  Default: %systemroot%\system32\logfiles
  Created by Install: No
  Description: This parameter controls the folder in which the RSVP trace files are created. The RSVP trace files have the name format Rsvpxxxx.trc, where xxxx represent the trace file number.



• MaxSizeOfTracefiles
  Key: System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rsvp\Parameters
  Value Type: REG_DWORD - size in bytes
  Valid Range: positive number
  Default: 1 megabyte
  Created by Install: No
  Description: This parameter controls the maximum size of the RSVP trace file. When the trace file size reaches this value, the RSVP service opens the next file and starts writing to that file. The contents of the new file are deleted before writing. If the RSVP service has used up all the available files, the first file is overwritten.



• MaxNumberOfTracefilesToUse
  Key: System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rsvp\Parameters
  Value Type: REG_DWORD
  Valid Range: > 1
  Default: 10
  Created by Install: No
  Description: This parameter controls the number of trace files used by the RSVP service. The RSVP service uses trace files as circular buffers and ove writes the first file when the last file is full.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbnetwork
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto