Mastering Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0

13.12. Farm Management

The majority of the operations that STSADM provides deal with managing the various aspects of specific web applications, site collections, or sites. However, you shouldn't forget that there are some settings that cross all of these boundaries and apply to all the servers in your farm. (Remember that even a standalone server is still considered a farm, albeit a very small one—more like a vegetable garden or flowerbox.)

Diagnostic and Trace Logging Levels In Central Administration, you have the ability to set the Event Log and Trace Logging levels, but you must do it one category at a time. You cannot configure them in a single action. Therefore, this is a very time-consuming process (hours) if you follow best practice ...