Log Files in System Center 2012 - Unified Installer

 

Updated: May 13, 2016

Applies To: System Center 2012 - Unified Installer

It is possible in some System Center 2012 – Unified Installer scenarios that the deployment status will show a summary failure event and possibly a cryptic exit code. In these situations, you might have to look at the local installation logs of the application to determine the cause of a failure because the silent install might not return any errors or might not include details of the errors.

The following table shows where log files are found.

Component Log Location
Orchestrator \Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft System Center 2012\Orchestrator\LOGS
VMM ​\programdata\vmmlogs
Operations Manager \Users\<user>\AppData\Local\SCOM\Logs
App Controller \Users\<user>\AppData\Local\AppController\Logs
DPM \Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012\Data Protection Manager\DPMLogs
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager \ConfigManagerSetup.log
Service Manager \Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp\1
Unified Installer \Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft System Center 2012\Unified Installer\LOGS

See Also

User's Guide for System Center 2012 - Unified Installer