Suppress Domino show commands from log.nsf
Daniel Nashed – 27 December 2025 19:10:18
By default "show commands" are logged into log.nsf.
Usually you either need it in console.log only.
In some cases you only need it as a response to a remote console command.
notes.ini Log_Console controls the log behavior of "show" commands.
By default everything is logged to log.nsf.
Setting Log_Console=1 ensures the result is only logged to console.log -- which is usually what you want.
Only in highly restricted environments you want to set the parameter to 2 to enforce every request to be logged into log.nsf.
This includes requests with a prefixed exclamation mark.
Without setting it to 2 the prefixed exclamation mark does not log any output.
That's specially helpful for automating commands like "show stat", "show trans" commands in troubleshooting scenarios with Lotus Script or C-API.
Log_Console
By default, all console command output (except output preceded by an exclamation point) is recorded in the server log.
With Log_Console, you can control console command logging by setting this variable to the following:
Value / Description
0 Console command logging disabled
1 Console command output logged, unless it's prefixed with an exclamation point (this is the default; it produces the same behavior as omitting Log_Console from Notes.ini)
2 Console command output logged, whether or not it's prefixed with an exclamation point
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