In this blog post I’ll be covering, Logging for Quartz.Net Windows
Service 01 – Why doesn’t Quartz.Net Windows
Service log by default 02 – Configuring Quartz.Net windows
service for logging to eventlog, file, console, etc 03 – Results: Logging in action If you are new to Quartz.Net I would recommend going through, A brief Introduction to Quartz.net Walkthrough of Installing & Testing Quartz.Net as a Windows
Service Writing & Scheduling your First HelloWorld job with Quartz.Net 01 – Why doesn’t Quartz.Net Windows
Service log by default If you are trying to figure out why… The Quartz.Net windows
service isn’t logging The Quartz.Net windows
service isn’t writing anything to the event log The Quartz.Net windows
service isn’t writing anything to a file How do I configure Quartz.Net windows
service to use log4Net How do I change the level of logging for Quartz.Net Look no further, This blog post should help you answer these questions. Quartz.NET uses the
Common.Logging framework for all of its logging needs. If you navigate to the directory where Quartz.Net Windows
Service is installed (I have the
service installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Quartz.net, you can find out the location by looking at the properties of the service) and open ‘Quartz.Server.exe.config’ you’ll see that the Quartz.Net is already set up for logging to ConsoleAppender and EventLogAppender, but only ‘ConsoleAppender’ is set up as active. So, unless you have the console associated to the Quartz.Net
service you won’t be able to see any logging. <log4net>
<appender name="ConsoleAppender" type="log4net.Appender.ConsoleAppender">
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<conversionPattern value="%d [%t] %-5p %l - %m%n" />
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="EventLogAppender" type="log4net.Appender.EventLogAppender">
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<conversionPattern value="%d [%t] %-5p %l - %m%n" />
</layout>
</appender>
<root>
<level value="INFO" />
<appender-ref ref="ConsoleAppender" />
<!-- uncomment to enable event log appending -->
<!-- <appender-ref ref="EventLogAppender" /> -->
</root>
</log4net>
Problem: In the configuration above Quartz.Net Windows
Service only has ConsoleAppender active. So, no logging will be done to EventLog. More over the RollingFileAppender isn’t setup at all. So, Quartz.Net will not log to an application trace log file.
02 – Configuring Quartz.Net windows
service for logging to eventlog, file, console, etc
Let’s change this behaviour by changing the config file… In the below config file,
I have added the RollingFileAppender. This will configure Quartz.Net
service to write to a log file. (<appender name="GeneralLog" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">)
I have specified the location for the log file (<arg key="configFile" value="Trace/application.log.txt"/>)
I have enabled the EventLogAppender and RollingFileAppender to be written to by Quartz. Net windows
service
Changed the default level of logging from ‘Info’ to ‘All’. This means all activity performed by Quartz.Net Windows
service will be logged. You might want to tune this back to ‘Debug’ or ‘Info’ later as logging ‘All’ will produce too much data to the logs. (<level value="ALL"/>)
Since I have changed the logging level to ‘All’, I have added applicationSetting to remove logging log4Net internal debugging. (<add key="log4net.Internal.Debug" value="false"/>)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<configSections>
<section name="quartz" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler,
System, Version=1.0.5000.0,Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
<section name="log4net" type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net" />
<sectionGroup name="
common">
<section name="logging" type="
Common.Logging.ConfigurationSectionHandler,
Common.Logging" />
</sectionGroup>
</configSections>
<common>
<logging>
<factoryAdapter type="
Common.Logging.Log4Net.Log4NetLoggerFactoryAdapter,
Common.Logging.Log4net">
<arg key="configType" value="INLINE" />
<arg key="configFile" value="Trace/application.log.txt"/>
<arg key="level" value="ALL" />
</factoryAdapter>
</logging>
</common>
<appSettings>
<add key="log4net.Internal.Debug" value="false"/>
</appSettings>
<log4net>
<appender name="ConsoleAppender" type="log4net.Appender.ConsoleAppender">
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<conversionPattern value="%d [%t] %-5p %l - %m%n" />
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="EventLogAppender" type="log4net.Appender.EventLogAppender">
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<conversionPattern value="%d [%t] %-5p %l - %m%n" />
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="GeneralLog" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
<file value="Trace/application.log.txt"/>
<appendToFile value="true"/>
<maximumFileSize value="1024KB"/>
<rollingStyle value="Size"/>
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<conversionPattern value="%d{HH:mm:ss} [%t] %-5p %c - %m%n"/>
</layout>
</appender>
<root>
<level value="ALL" />
<appender-ref ref="ConsoleAppender" />
<appender-ref ref="EventLogAppender" />
<appender-ref ref="GeneralLog"/>
</root>
</log4net>
</configuration>
Note – Please ensure you restart the Quartz.Net Windows
service for the config changes to be picked up by the
service
03 – Results: Logging in action
Once you start the Quartz.Net Windows
Service up, the logging should be initiated to write all activities in the Console, EventLog and File… See screen shots below…
Figure – Quartz.Net Windows
Service logging all activity to the event log
Figure – Quartz.Net Windows
Service logging all activity to the application log file
Where is the output from log4Net ConsoleAppender?
As a default behaviour, the console isn't available in windows services, web services, windows forms. The output will simply be dismissed. Unless you are running the process interactively. Which you can do by firing up Quartz.Server.exe –i to see the output
This was fourth in the series of posts on enterprise scheduling using Quartz.net, in the next post I’ll be covering troubleshooting why a scheduled task hasn’t fired on Quartz.net windows
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