Overlapped Recycling And SharePoint: Tracking Recycle Events

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As part of your efforts to properly configure your server for overlapped recycling you will obviously need to know when a recycle takes place. It also makes sense that you would want to know about ALL recycle events, not just overlapped ones. To this end you will need to configure your IIS Application Pool to track all of these events in the Event Logs. Here is how you how do this:

1. Click Start, click Run, and then type cmd at the command prompt.

2. Change to the directory where Adsutil is located. The following is the default directory location: %SYSTEMROOT%\Inetpub\AdminScripts

3. Type the following command:

cscript adsutil.vbs Set w3svc/AppPools/[YourAppPoolName]/LogEventOnRecycle 255

In the command above, replace [YourAppPoolName] with the actual name of the application pool upon which you want to enable the events.

 

Note:

If your application pool name has a space in it, for example, “SharePoint- 80”, you must include double quotes around the metabase path in the command. Here is an example:

cscript adsutil.vbs Set "w3svc/AppPools/SharePoint - 80/LogEventOnRecycle" 255

 

For those among you who are curious as to the details of what this all means, here are some links to explain:

How to modify Application Pool Recycling events in IIS 6.0
LogEventOnRecycle Metabase Property (IIS 6.0)