It’s possible my new Edge is jinxed. First I couldn’t RDP to it, and now I’ve installed SfB, CLS Logging isn’t working.

It might have something to do with the fact that Windows Updates put .NET 4.7 on it before I’d even had a chance to run Pat’s script to block it.

The quick way to check for it in Server 2016 is to look for the KB:

PS C:\Users\Administrator> get-hotfix Kb3186568

Anyway, despite having excised that, CLS logging wasn’t working. The service would start and appear to run fine, with no errors in the event log, but it wasn’t listening on the usual ports, and of course that was resulting in errors when I tried to start logging from the Front-End:

PS C:\Users\greig> Show-CsClsLogging -Computers sfb2015edge2.blah.local
WARNING: Failed on 1 agents

Agent - sfb2015edge2.blah.local, Reason - Error code - 20000, Message - Unknown error - Error calling agent 
sfb2015edge2.blah.local; Could not connect to net.tcp://sfb2015edge2.blah.local:50002/. The connection attempt 
lasted for a time span of 00:00:20.9811488. TCP error code 10060: A connection attempt failed because the connected 
party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has 
failed to respond 192.168.19.89:50002. . Please refer CLS logs for details.      PoolFqdn: sfb2015edge2.blah.local


MachineFqdn                  ResponseMessage                AlwaysOn ScenarioName     Remaining ProductVersion
                                                                                       Mins

-----------                  ---------------                -------- ------------     --------- --------------

sfb2015edge2.blah.local  Error code - 20000, Message -                                0         6.0.9319.0
                              Unknown error - Error calling
                              agent
                              sfb2015edge2.blah.local;
                              Could not connect to net.tcp:/
                              /sfb2015edge2.blah.local:5
                              0002/. The connection attempt
                              lasted for a time span of
                              00:00:20.9811488. TCP error
                              code 10060: A connection
                              attempt failed because the
                              connected party did not
                              properly respond after a
                              period of time, or
                              established connection failed
                              because connected host has
                              failed to respond
                              192.168.19.89:50002. . Please
                              refer CLS logs for details.
PS C:\Users\greig>

Not on CU5 yet

In the process of debugging this I checked the patch version and found it was only at ~CU4, which is similar to other people’s experiences of the “Connect to the internet to check for updates” process in the Install Wizard. I updated it to CU5 and rebooted, to no avail.

A Corrupted DLL?

I had a good shop around the ‘net. It wasn’t Trevor’s problem with another process using the ports. (Awesome post BTW Trevor!)

Lots of my searches kept coming back to an earlier CLS problem with Lync 2013 that was fixed in October 2014. The kb contained this gem:

“This issue occurs because the Microsoft.Rtc.ClsAgent.IISLog folder is missing from the .Net global assembly cache after you install September 2014 Cumulative Update 5.0.8308.815 for Lync Server 2013. Therefore, the Centralized Logging Service Agent Service does not listen on designated ports”.

I checked and found I had that folder, but I wasn’t being put off so easily, because the DLL file here has caused OTHER problems before.

Taking a long shot I copied the same file across from my earlier working Edge (running Server 2012 R2) & rebooted, and VOILA, we’re good!!

PS C:\Users\Administrator> netstat -ano | findstr 5000*
   TCP    0.0.0.0:50001          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       4980
   TCP    0.0.0.0:50002          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       4980
   TCP    0.0.0.0:50003          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       4980
   TCP    [::]:50001             [::]:0                 LISTENING       4980
   TCP    [::]:50002             [::]:0                 LISTENING       4980
   TCP    [::]:50003             [::]:0                 LISTENING       4980
   UDP    0.0.0.0:500            *:*                                    1120
   UDP    0.0.0.0:4500           *:*                                    1120
   UDP    [::]:500               *:*                                    1120
   UDP    [::]:4500              *:*                                    1120
PS C:\Users\Administrator>

And my Front-End is happy now too:

PS C:\Users\greig> Show-CsClsLogging -Computers sfb2015edge2.blah.local
     PoolFqdn: sfb2015edge2.blah.local
MachineFqdn                  ResponseMessage                AlwaysOn ScenarioName     Remaining ProductVersion                                                                                        Mins

-----------                  ---------------                -------- ------------     --------- --------------

sfb2015edge2.blah.local                                     False                     0         6.0.9319.0

PS C:\Users\greig>

Summary

Is this a Server 2016 thing? Is it because of .NET 4.7? Could it be because I installed SfB by following the Wizard and *not* manually installing CU5 first? Is it just me?

Time may reveal the answer to that, but for the time being, I hope this post might help someone else get their logging going.

Revision History

4th September 2017: this is the initial post.

– G.