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Welcome to contoso.se! My name is Anders Bengtsson and this is my blog about Azure infrastructure and system management. I am a senior engineer in the FastTrack for Azure team, part of Azure Engineering, at Microsoft.  Contoso.se has two main purposes, first as a platform to share information with the community and the second as a notebook for myself.

Everything you read here is my own personal opinion and any code is provided "AS-IS" with no warranties.



MVP awarded 2007,2008,2009,2010

My Books

Service Manager Unleashed


Orchestrator 2012 Unleashed


Inside the Microsoft Operations Management Suite

Logging in Service Management Automation (SMA)

In Service Management Automation (SMA) there are a couple of different ways to write to a log. In this blog post I will show you how to write to the job history tab and how to write to an external SQL database.

If you have published a runbook you can use Write-Verbose, Write-Progress and Write-Debug as shown in figure 1 to write log message. The result of write actions will be shown in History for each runbook job, example shown in figure 2. Figure 3 show important settings to make this work, you need to enable logging on the runbook, else you will see no log messages in the job history.

Figure 1 Write to log examples

Figure 2 Log examples

Figure 3 Log settings

Another alternative for logging is logging to an external database. We have earlier used the same logging solution for Orchestrator runbooks. Figure 4 shows a SMA runbook that writes to a SQL database named SMALOG. As you can see in figure 4 the “writelog” SMA runbook use three parameters, Runbook, Job and Description. Other runbooks invoking this runbook need to provide current runbook, current job ID and a log message description. To get the current runbook name and job ID you can use the code shown in figure 5. The writelog runbook use the Get-Date to get current time. The log database is shown in figure 6.

Figure 4 SMA runbook writes logs to SQL database

Figure 5 Get current runbook name and job ID

 

Figure 6 Example of log database

Download examples here. Logging . Note that this is provided “AS-IS” with no warranties at all. This is not a production ready solution, just an idea and an example.

 


2 Comments

  1. Great article, thanks.

    Especially figure 5 is a good hint, as it is basically the “Common Published Data” for SMA 🙂

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