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gkr
Joined:: 2016-02-05
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.NET assembly does not save the xml log file

2016-02-05 15:20

Hello,
There is something I don't understand with .NET assembly and a powershell script.
Here is an excerpt of the said script:

# Set TXT assembly debug log to
$session.DebugLogPath = "C:\temp\Visualcron\Powershell\DebugLogPath.txt"
      
# Set XML transfer log files
$session.SessionLogPath = "d:\SessionLogPath.xml"
      
# Connect
$session.Open($sessionOptions)

If I set $session.SessionLogPath I get this in the $session.DebugLogPath:

[2016-02-05 15:00:25.521Z] [003e]       Starting "C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCPautomation\winscp.exe" /xmllog="C:\Users\XX\AppData\Local\Temp\wscp1C70.00F34364.tmp" /xmlgroups /nointeractiveinput /dotnet=576  /ini=nul [color=green]/log="d:\SessionLogPath.xml"[/color]  /console /consoleinstance=_7280_6920806_341

If I don't set $session.SessionLogPath I get this in the $session.DebugLogPath:

[2016-02-05 15:01:22.868Z] [0031]       Starting "C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCPautomation\winscp.exe" /xmllog="C:\Users\XX\AppData\Local\Temp\wscp1C70.00C12950.tmp" /xmlgroups /nointeractiveinput /dotnet=576  /ini=nul  /console /consoleinstance=_7280_61436044_343

But in either case "d:\SessionLogPath.xml" is never created. So what is the $session.SessionLogPath used for? I would have expected to have /xmllog="d:\SessionLogPath.xml" when I explicitely set it.
I would really like to keep the xml log file with all transfers because we have it too when we run WinSCP in interactive mode and we send it to Splunk for indexing.

Anyone manage to get an xml log file of the session when using the .NET Assembly?

Many thanks,

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martin◆ Site Admin
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Re: .NET assembly does not save the xml log file

2016-02-05

The WinSCP .NET assembly is using XML log file for its internal purposes. It does delete the XML log when the session is disposed.

The SessionLogPath property is to enable session logging, not XML logging.

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gkr

2016-02-05 18:09

Fair enough may ask then how can I get the xml log I need to index it for compliance reasons and what is the purpose of the option sessionlogpath ?

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martin◆ Site Admin
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2016-02-05

You cannot. All you can try to do is to copy away the temporary XML log just before you call .Dispose.

Or just log the transfers as recorded in TransferOperationResult returned from the GetFiles and PutFiles methods.
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/library_transferoperationresult

SessionLogPath: As I wrote, it enables session logging. But you cannot use .xml in the name of the session log.

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