Configuring trace for SSLStream

To capture tracing events and messages relating to the SSLStream class, you must add a configuration section for system diagnostics to the application configuration file for your application.

About this task

If you do not add a configuration section for system diagnostics to the application configuration file, the IBM® MQ managed .NET client will not capture any events, traces or debugging points relating to SSL and the SSLStream class.

Note: Starting IBM MQ tracing using strmqtrc does not capture all the required SSL tracing.

Procedure

  1. Create an application configuration (App.Config) file for your application project.
  2. Add a system diagnostics configuration section as shown in the following example. 
    
<system.diagnostics>
           <sources>
                 <source name="System.Net" tracemode="includehex">
                       <listeners>
                             <add name="ExternalSourceTrace"/>
                       </listeners>
                 </source>
                 <source name="System.Net.Sockets">
                       <listeners>
                             <add name="ExternalSourceTrace"/>
                       </listeners>
                 </source>
                 <source name="System.Net.Cache">
                       <listeners>
                             <add name="ExternalSourceTrace"/>
                       </listeners>
                 </source>
                 <source name="System.Net.Security">
                       <listeners>
                             <add name="ExternalSourceTrace"/>
                       </listeners>
                 </source>
                 <source name="System.Security">
                       <listeners>
                             <add name="ExternalSourceTrace"/>
                       </listeners>
                 </source>
           </sources>
           <switches>
                 <add name="System.Net" value="Verbose"/>
                 <add name="System.Net.Sockets" value="Verbose"/>
                 <add name="System.Net.Cache" value="Verbose"/>
                 <add name="System.Security" value="Verbose"/>
                 <add name="System.Net.Security" value="Verbose"/>
           </switches>
           
           <sharedListeners>
                 <add name="ExternalSourceTrace" type="IBM.WMQ.ExternalSourceTrace, amqmdnet, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=dd3cb1c9aae9ec97"/>
           </sharedListeners>
         <trace autoflush="true"/>
     </system.diagnostics>