managing IIS logs

Question

User-2096174568 posted

Hello,

   I'm new so I apologize if this topic has been beaten to death. My company has many domain controllers with SMS. The system partitions are only 10GB and are filling up every few months largely due to IIS logs. I would like to point the logs to D:\  drive and purge them every 60-90 days. I could manually logon and do this on each one, but has anyone created an automated way to configure (via script) the logs directory. I'm hoping to have a script that will accept a servers.txt file or something of the like that it can execute against. Any help or direction is greatly appreciated....I've googled this and didn't find relevant info...

Answer 1

User1347187933 posted

Hi AutoAviat,

Try these tools. 

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/iislogarchiver.html

http://www.logfilemanager.com/

http://www.ultimate-webservices.com/?Lng=en-US&Navigation=2-1

 

Answer 2

User1073881637 posted

Here is a tool I wrote that is free and allows you to zip and / or just delete them.. 
http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1310

VBS Script.
http://blogs.thesitedoctor.co.uk/tim/2007/02/10/Automatically+Delete+Old+IIS+Log+Files.aspx

Answer 3

User1073881637 posted

Here is another thread that has a good VBS Script that uses 'gzip' to compress the logs.

http://forums.iis.net/p/1022450/1386060.aspx

Answer 4

User-2096174568 posted

wow thanks everyone !! :-)

Answer 5

User1073881637 posted

Our pleasure.  Good Luck!

Answer 6

User1045954094 posted

Let me know if you have any issues using the one I posted on my blog.

Tim

Answer 7

User-1415539275 posted

Wouldn't it be nice if Microsoft added the ability to delete old logfiles without having to resort to a script or third party tool? With all the nice stuff they build, I am so surprised that they have never seemed to think of that addition to the logging options in IIS.

 -c

Answer 8

User1159155449 posted

You can delete them by hand

%SystemDrive%\inetpub\logs\LogFiles

Answer 9

User1691346475 posted

thatsit

you are correct. Just deleted and iis created a new one automatically