Start/notes.ini Parameters/Console_Log_Enabled

Console_Log_Enabled

Parameter: Console_Log_Enabled
Short description: Enables persistent console logging to the file console.log across server restarts.

Profile

Parameter
Console_Log_Enabled
Category
Logging / Debug
Available since
At least 9.0.1 (HCL documentation)
GUI equivalent
According to HCL, no direct GUI option. Can be set in the Configuration document on the NOTES.INI Settings tab.
Possible values
1 = console logging enabled · 0 = console logging disabled
Default
Not explicitly documented by HCL; in practice, console logging is typically enabled on Domino 9/10/11.

Description

The HCL documentation for Start Consolelog clearly describes the relationship to the notes.ini parameter:
The Start Consolelog and the Stop Consolelog server commands enable and disable console logging just as the NOTES.INI variable CONSOLE_LOG_ENABLED does. The difference between the server console commands and the NOTES.INI setting is that the console commands are in effect for the current server session only, whereas the NOTES.INI settings take effect each time the server is started.
Console_Log_Enabled=1 is therefore the persistent variant: at every server start, the console output is automatically written to console.log (in the IBM_TECHNICAL_SUPPORT directory or the configured output directory). The commands Start Consolelog / Stop Consolelog toggle the same thing only for the current session.

Example configuration

Console_Log_Enabled=1
With Console_Log_Enabled=1, console.log is actively written at every server start — very useful for post-analysis of crash situations or for audit purposes.

Notes & pitfalls

  • The console.log file can be locked or corrupted by running tasks (e.g. Compact, Fixup, Updall) — in such cases it is advisable to delete it after a planned server stop, so that the server creates a fresh file at startup.
  • Related notes.ini parameters for size and rotation control: Console_Log_Max_Kbytes, Console_Log_Overwrite (see HCL KB).
  • Console counterpart: Start Consolelog / Stop Consolelog (not persistent).
  • According to HCL, there is no direct GUI equivalent.
  • HCL Domino 14.5.1 has no separate conf_console_log_enabled_r.html reference page (404). The reference to CONSOLE_LOG_ENABLED is still described verbatim in 14.5.1 in the help page Start Consolelog (admn_startconsolelog_r.html).

Sources (HCL Product Documentation)