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Realtime Service not logging

I'm trying to configure our Realtime service to log "All" to the disk, but no files are created. It worked a couple of months ago but now i can't figure out why its not working anymore.

The folder is configured so that everyone have full control so it should'nt be a permission issue. Can anyone guide me in the right direction to get to logging to work again.

This is a logging part of the configuration file.

  <system.diagnostics>
    <sources>
      <!-- this registers the listener with traces from a specific source -->
      <source name="RetailNetTracer" switchValue="All">
        <listeners>
          <!-- Unblock the below code to turn on trace file. Make sure write permission is granted to the file folder. -->
           <add name="RollingXmlWriterTraceListener" /> 
        </listeners>
      </source>
      <source name="RetailNetTracerEventLog" switchValue="Error">
        <listeners>
          <add name="EventLogTraceListener" />
        </listeners>
      </source>
      <!-- The below source and listener are required for Retail monitoring to function correctly. Please do not modify either. -->
      <source name="RetailMonitoringTracer" switchValue="Information">
        <listeners>
          <add name="MonitoringEventLogTraceListener" />
        </listeners>
      </source>
    </sources>
    <!-- this defines a listener -->
    <sharedListeners>
      <!-- initializeData is the file name.  If empty, it is going to be created in %TEMP%\RetailLogs\<name of exe> -->
      <add name="RollingXmlWriterTraceListener" type="Microsoft.Dynamics.Retail.Diagnostics.Sinks.RollingXmlWriterTraceListener, Microsoft.Dynamics.Retail.Diagnostics.Sink" initializeData="C:\Logs\RTS\log.svclog" MaxLogFileInBytes="50000000" traceOutputOptions="ProcessId, DateTime, LogicalOperationStack" />
      <add name="EventLogTraceListener" type="System.Diagnostics.EventLogTraceListener" initializeData="Microsoft Dynamics AX Retail : Real time Service CommerceDataExchangeRealtimeService" />
      <!-- This listener is required for Retail monitoring to function correctly.  Please do not modify it. -->
      <add name="MonitoringEventLogTraceListener" type="System.Diagnostics.EventLogTraceListener" initializeData="Microsoft Dynamics AX Retail Monitoring : Real time Service CommerceDataExchangeRealtimeService" />
    </sharedListeners>
    <!-- this configures tracing -->
    <trace autoflush="true">
      <listeners>
        <remove name="Default" />
        <add name="RollingXmlWriterTraceListener" />
        <add name="EventLogTraceListener" />
      </listeners>
    </trace>
  </system.diagnostics>

After troubleshooting this with the Microsoft support for a couple of days the MS finally found the error. In CU8 theres an typo in the Web.Config file.

Using the clean file you get after install, of which we saved a copy at least on the test server, make the changes listed on the support blog (blogs.msdn.com/.../ax-for-retail-2012-r2-troubleshooting-the-real-time-service.aspx) and modify the following on line 35:

The line needs to be changed to:

The typo in the config causes the application not to find the listener and hence not creating the file. I have attached a working file as an example. Please test this on your environment and let me know the outcome.

As you might not see theres a missing s in the type attribute. Sink vs Sinks

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