Microsoft r Logman.exe (5.1.2600.2180) c Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Logman manages the "Performance Logs and Alerts" service for creating and managing Event Trace Session logs and Performance logs. Usage: logman VERB [options] Verbs: create Create a new collection. start Start an existing collection and set the begin time to manual. stop Stop an existing collection and set the end time to manual. delete Delete an existing collection. query [collection_name|providers] Query collection properties. If no collection_name is given all collections are listed. The keyword 'providers' will list all of the registered Event Trace providers. update Update an existing collection properties. Parameters: Name of the collection. Options: -? Displays context sensitive help. -s Perform the command on specified remote system. -config Settings file containing command options. -b Begin the collection at specified time. -e End the collection at specified time. -m <[start] [stop]> Change to manual start or stop rather than a scheduled begin or end time. -[-]r Repeat the collection daily at the specified begin and end times. -o Path of the output log file or the DSN and log set name in a SQL database. -f Specifies the log format for the collection. -[-]a Append to an existing log file. -[-]v [nnnnnn|mmddhhmm] Attach file versioning information to the end of the log name. -[-]rc Run the command specified each time the log is closed. -[-]max Maximum log file size in MB or number of records for SQL logs. -[-]cnf [[[hh:]mm:]ss] Create a new file when the specified time has elapsed or when the max size is exceeded. -c Performance counters to collect. -cf File listing performance counters to collect, one per line. -si <[[hh:]mm:]ss> Sample interval for performance counter collections. -ln Logger name for Event Trace Sessions. -[-]rt Run the Event Trace Session in real-time mode. -p A single Event Trace provider to enable. -pf File listing multiple Event Trace providers to enable. -[-]ul Run the Event Trace Session in user mode. -bs Event Trace Session buffer size in kb. -ft <[[hh:]mm:]ss> Event Trace Session flush timer. -nb Number of Event Trace Session buffers. -fd Flushes all the active buffers of an existing Event Trace Session to disk. -[-]u [user [password]] User to Run As. Entering a * for the password produces a prompt for the password. The password is not displayed when you type it at the password prompt. -rf <[[hh:]mm:]ss> Run the collection for specified period of time. -y Answer yes to all questions without prompting. -ets Send commands to Event Trace Sessions directly without saving or scheduling. -mode Event Trace Session logger mode. Note: Where [-] is listed, an extra - negates the option. For example --r turns off the -r option. Examples: logman create counter perf_log -c "\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time" logman create trace trace_log -nb 16 256 -bs 64 -o c:\logfile logman start perf_log logman update perf_log -si 10 -f csv -v mmddhhmm logman update trace_log -p "Windows Kernel Trace" (disk,net)