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Logging Facilities

Manoj Ampalam edited this page Mar 30, 2018 · 8 revisions

Logging facilities

Prior to v7.6.1.0, server side components supported only 1 logging facility (file based at logs\sshd.log). In v7.6.1.0 and later, ETW logging is added and is the default. You can view these logs under event viewer as follows:

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The admin channel is for CRITICAL and ERROR events, operational is for INFO and debug is for DEBUG* variants. The payload would mimic what users would otherwise see in a typical syslog entry.

File based logging option (useful for quickly collecting debug traces) can be turned on by setting the following in sshd_config

LogFacility LOCAL0

With this option, the logs would be collected at %programdata%\ssh\logs. sftp-server would follow similar semantics for logging (by default to ETW) and to files using the following as subsystem path in sshd_config:

sftp-server -f LOCAL0

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