# CR for Log Enabling
**URL:** https://forums.powershell.org/t/cr-for-log-enabling/3500
**Category:** DSC
**Created:** [December 9, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/cr-for-log-enabling/3500 "2014-12-09T04:36:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@ryan-young](https://forums.powershell.org/u/ryan-young)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/cr-for-log-enabling/3500/1 "2014-12-09T04:36:30Z")
Hello, So after finding the xWinEvent resource I’m working on a composite resource to get this out. Here’s what I’ve got:
```
Configuration rDSCLogging
{
Param(
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[string]$Logname,
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[bool]$setstatus
)
Import-DscResource -module xWinEventLog
$loghalf = "Microsoft-Windows-WMI-Activity/"
{
xWinEventLog WMILog
{
Logname = $loghalf + $LogName
IsEnabled = $setstatus
Logmode = "Circular"
MaximumSizeInBytes = 5mb
}
}
}
```
and I am trying to call this resource like so in my main configuration:
```
Configuration SQLinstall
{
Import-DscResource -name *
Node $allnodes.where({$_.NodeRole -eq "SQL"}).NodeGuid {
rDSCLogging EnableAnalyticSQL {
Logname = "Analytic"
setstatus = $enabled }
rdsclogging EnableDebugSQL {
Logname = "Debug"
setstatus = $enabled }
}
}
```
Powershell is giving me this error output, likely because I am still newb to paramaters:
```
SQLInstall -ConfigurationData $AllServerConfigData -outpath "C:\contoso\WorkDir"
PSDesiredStateConfiguration\Node : Cannot convert value "" to type "System.Boolean". Boolean parameters accept only Boolean values and numbers, such as $True, $False, 1 or
0.
At line:95 char:5
+ Node $allnodes.where({$_.NodeRole -eq "SQL"}).NodeGuid {
+ ~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [PSDesiredStateConfiguration\node], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidCastExceptionUnsupportedParameterType,PSDesiredStateConfiguration\node
PSDesiredStateConfiguration\Node : Cannot convert value "" to type "System.Boolean". Boolean parameters accept only Boolean values and numbers, such as $True, $False, 1 or
0.
At line:95 char:5
+ Node $allnodes.where({$_.NodeRole -eq "SQL"}).NodeGuid {
+ ~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [PSDesiredStateConfiguration\node], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidCastExceptionUnsupportedParameterType,PSDesiredStateConfiguration\node
PSDesiredStateConfiguration\Node : Cannot convert value "" to type "System.Boolean". Boolean parameters accept only Boolean values and numbers, such as $True, $False, 1 or
0.
At line:95 char:5
+ Node $allnodes.where({$_.NodeRole -eq "SQL"}).NodeGuid {
+ ~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [PSDesiredStateConfiguration\node], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidCastExceptionUnsupportedParameterType,PSDesiredStateConfiguration\node
Errors occurred while processing configuration 'SQLinstall'.
At C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\PSDesiredStateConfiguration\PSDesiredStateConfiguration.psm1:2223 char:5
+ throw $errorRecord
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (SQLinstall:String) [], InvalidOperationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : FailToProcessConfiguration
```
Configuration data is populated with computers from AD, and is proven to work with other configs.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.powershell.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2014, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/cr-for-log-enabling/3500/2 "2014-12-09T06:57:23Z")
What is in your $enabled variable? That’s the only place I can see that you might be running into trouble with a conversion to Boolean.
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### Author:  [@ryan-young](https://forums.powershell.org/u/ryan-young)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2014, 9:26am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/cr-for-log-enabling/3500/3 "2014-12-09T09:26:24Z")
Thanks as always for the reply Dave! The situation has changed just a bit, now the script works IF I specify a node in the configuration. If I do not, then when I try to use $allnodes.Where({$\_.NodeRole -eq "sql}).nodeguid tied into -configurationdata the command is taken but no MOFs are generated.
Updated composite resource: (DSCLogging.schema.psm1)
```
Configuration rDSCLogging
{
Param (
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[validateset('Analytic', 'Operational', 'Debug')]
[string]$Logname,
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[string]$setstatus
)
switch ($setstatus)
{
'Enable' { $true }
'Enabled' { $true }
'Disable' { $false }
'Disabled' { $false }
default { $false }
}
Import-DscResource -module xWinEventLog
$loghalf = "Microsoft-Windows-WMI-Activity/"
# node Localhost
{
xWinEventLog WMILog
{
Logname = $loghalf + $LogName
IsEnabled = $setstatus
Logmode = "Circular"
MaximumSizeInBytes = 5mb
}
}
}
```
Updated masterconfig entry:
```
Configuration SQLinstall
{
Import-DscResource -name *
Node $allnodes.where({$_.NodeRole -eq "SQL"}).NodeGuid {
rDSCLogging EnableAnalyticSQL {
Logname = "Analytic"
setstatus = "Enabled" }
rdsclogging EnableDebugSQL {
Logname = "Debug"
setstatus = "Enabled" }
}
}
SQLInstall -ConfigurationData $AllServerConfigData -outpath "C:\Contoso\WorkDir"
```
Isn’t it strange that it’ll make me a perfect MOF if I specify the node but I can’t feed configurationdata to it?
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### Author:  [@dotnVo](https://forums.powershell.org/u/dotnVo)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/cr-for-log-enabling/3500/4 "2024-05-16T21:17:28Z")