There may be times when you need to switch off or disable your SMS site server logging permanently or temporarily and to do so it is a relatively easy task to perform. For example if you have a site server in a lab or sandbox environment the log files may not be needed for whatever reason you may have and can be prevented for generating information to be sent to the logs.
However this one here involves the registry and care must be taken to ensure that you have a safe or backup copy of the registry or at least the SMS registry information. Follow the steps below to disable your site server logging.
From the SMS server start Regedit and locate the following subkey:
Hkey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Sms\Tracing
Next simply double click on “Enabled” and change the “Value Data” from 1 to 0.
After this has been completed you need to recycle the Sms_Executive and the Sms_Site_Component_Manager services to set the change to take effect immediately or reboot the machine when you can.
To see the list of log files that will be affected see the “Site server log files” section of the document below:
A list of log files that are created in Systems Management Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/867490
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