I need to implement a kind of logging server with the following features:

1. Every client sends log to server just in case of Error level message to log.

2. If client can't connect to the server it saves the log to local machine.

3.  Client logs to local machine in case the level of message is lower than Error level.

4. Server recieve log and saves it to separate folder to every client. Every client has its unique authorization string.

5. It would be great if messages for each client are viewed in different way in  Console.

I am newbie in SmartInspect and I can't find any way to operate recieved messages at  server side. For example, to save recieved message into certain file. So, could you explain the best way to implement these features?

I'm using v 3.3.0.10181, would that be possible to load configuration from string in a future version?
(or I'm just not finding the proper method?)
Right now I have to write it to a temp file, load and delete the file.

Thanks,
Alex

For a project I'm working on right now I've chosen to keep the logging of several processes that run simultaneously separated by logging to different tcp ports and configuring a console for each of them. Now I've found that the different instances of the console all look the same on the outside. To remedy this situation I would like to be able to give each of the instances a different title (i.e. the process name). I've been searching the forum for a way to add a custom title to an instance of the smartinspect console but haven't had any luck sofar.

Is there a way to customize the title of an instance of the console?

Regards,
Gerben ten Wolde,
Lead Developer,
VCD Automatisering

I used SmartInspect with webServices c#.
All of my web services write on the same log file but I have found missing log messages.
I can not find logs for an entire random web service call.

I post you my configuration :

In GLOBAL.asax:

protected 
         void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            // Code that runs on application startup
            // Enable Logging
            string path = System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;
            SiAuto.Si.LoadConfiguration(path + "Logging.sic");
            SiAuto.Main.EnterProcess("appProcess");
            
        }

        void Application_End(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //  Code that runs on application shutdown
            SiAuto.Main.LeaveProcess();
        }

        void Application_Error(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            // Code that runs when an unhandled error occurs
            Gurock.SmartInspect.Session session = SiAuto.Si[Session.SessionID];
            if (session != null)
            {
                session.LogError("An unhandled MWServices exception occurred");
                session.LogException(Server.GetLastError());
            }
        }

        void Session_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            // Code that runs when a new session is started
            Gurock.SmartInspect.Session session = SiAuto.Si.AddSession(Session.SessionID, true);
            session.Active = false;
        }

        void Session_End(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            // Code that runs when a session ends. 
            // Note: The Session_End event is raised only when the sessionstate mode
            // is set to InProc in the Web.config file. If session mode is set to StateServer 
            // or SQLServer, the event is not raised.
            SiAuto.Si.DeleteSession(SiAuto.Si[Session.SessionID]);
        }

In each of WebService i have:
- The method:

protected Gurock.SmartInspect.Session LogSession
        {
            get
            {
                return SiAuto.Si[Session.SessionID];
            }
        }

- And I start the log session with :

SiAuto.Si[Session.SessionID].Active = true;
            LogSession.Level = AppCore.loggingLevel;
            LogSession.EnterThread(Level.Message, logHeadBase + "- Method: 'methodname'");
            LogSession.EnterMethod(Level.Message, this, logHeadBase + "methodClass.methodName");
            LogSession.LogString(Level.Debug, logHeadBase + "username", yLogin);
            LogSession.LogMessage(logHeadBase + "Customer Authentication on MobankSystem");

- My configuration file is :

appName = WebServices
connections = file(filename="C:\LOG_Files\MWS.sil")
defaultLevel = Debug
enabled = True
level = Debug

If I have configured SmartInspect correctly my questions are:
- Can I have more details of how to write files smartInspect?
- What frequency of writing log messages can endure SmartInspect?
- If SmartInspect crashes I will lose the entire session log messages?

Thank You

MTT

I just like to know if the SmartInspect.dll signed?

Tam

Could you please add to next release feature:

"Copy string containing entry timestamp + entry text". That could be activated by something similar to Ctrl-C (e.g. Ctrl+Shift+C). It would add Format('%s %s',[entry.timestamp, entry.text]);
I was asking for it some time ago.

That feature would be very useful when I extract some important messages from the log.

best regards
Piotr Rezmer

There's a small bug in smartinspect.pas. It still contains string 3.3.2 instead of 3.3.3

const
  SiVersion = '3.3.2.49';

best regards
Piotr Rezmer

We're using SmartInspect (Professional) for our logging in our program and are now building the installer for it.

In the forums I found this thread: http://forum.gurock.com/topic/119/redist-install/

It says that we don't have to use the redistributable executable and only need to include the following four files from the redistributable install as part of our install:

DefaultDocking.dat
License.rtf
Deploy.txt
SmartInspectConsole.exe
SmartInspect.chm

This was posted back in 2007, is this still valid? Can I still redistribute the redistributable console this way instead of the entire install? I would much rather have the icons and shortcuts under my program, which would make more sense to our users.

Thanks!

Sheri

I am not seeing how to do this and i hope i am just missing something as this seems like a critical thing to be able to do.

For example, i want a session called siInvite to log to InviteLog.txt, a session called siDebug to log to debugLog.sil, and another session called siMain to log to Main.txt, tcp and main.sil

How can I achieve this? i am currently using log4net and it supports different targets based on the logger used.

I get following leak in my application built with latest release of smartInspect. Do you know what could be the reason of this leak?

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|Address |Module |Unit            |Class          |Procedure/Method|Line     |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|+Memory Leak: Type=TSiBufferedStream; Total size=8216; Count=1              |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|0056B7CE|PBX.exe|SmartInspect.pas|TSiPipeProtocol|InternalConnect |30330[5] |
|00561C39|PBX.exe|SmartInspect.pas|TSiProtocol    |ImplConnect     |20851[5] |
|00561727|PBX.exe|SmartInspect.pas|TSiProtocol    |Connect         |20634[13]|
|0056393B|PBX.exe|SmartInspect.pas|TSmartInspect  |Connect         |21852[5] |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here is an example from the documentation:

Overloaded. Tracks a method by using a custom log level. The method name consists of a format string and the related array of arguments. 

public MethodTracker TrackMethod(Level level, string methodNameFmt, object[] args);

The documentation in general, tho there is a lot of it, lacks any real details as to usage on some of the overloads.

I checked the included samples and didnt see any that have a call to TrackMethod.

I would like to make a recommendation to include some real examples vs the autogenerated documentation.

Eric

I've the following error message: "Stream read error" when opening the log file using encryption.

My C# code is the following:

var path = string.Format(@"file(filename={0}\{1}, encrypt=true, key=MyLogFilePassword)", myPath, "log.sil");

This only happens when log file is empty.

Regards,

Dave

Regards,