Enable-PSWSMan Combined Trace

Reference

Module:: PSDiagnostics

Start a logging session with the WSMan and PowerShell providers enabled.

Syntax

Enable-PSWSManCombinedTrace
      [-DoNotOverwriteExistingTrace]
      [<CommonParameters>]

Description

This cmdlet is only available on the Windows platform.

This cmdlet starts a logging session with the following PowerShell providers enabled:

Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell
Microsoft-Windows-WinRM

The session is named 'PSTrace'.

This cmdlet uses the Start-Trace cmdlet.

You must run this cmdlet from an elevated PowerShell session.

Examples

Example 1: Start a combined logging session

Enable-PSWSManCombinedTrace

Parameters

-DoNotOverwriteExistingTrace

By default, the events are written to $PSHOME\Traces\PSTrace.etl . When this parameter is used, the cmdlet creates a unique filename: $PSHOME\Traces\PSTrace_{guid}.etl

Type:	SwitchParameter
Position:	Named
Default value:	None
Accept pipeline input:	False
Accept wildcard characters:	False

Inputs

None

You can't pipe objects to this cmdlet.

Outputs