If you're leaning towards perl, Dave Roth has sample code that I've tweaked to do this sort of thing:
http://www.winnetmag.com/WindowsScripting/Article/ArticleID/16404/16404.html http://www.roth.net/perl/scripts/scripts.asp?EventLog.pl Hunter -----Original Message----- From: Kern, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 8:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] event logs Hi, i'm one admin in charge of about 30 servers(ad,exchange,sql,etc), does anyone know of a good cheap(free) way to monitor eventlogs without having to term or connect to each server? i was thinking of a perl script maybe via ms sql or mysql to send event errors or warnings to a centralized db or file. i find i spend about an hour or more of my morning monitoring and checking logs and i thought i'd use a pc to actually help me and do what it was meant to do- boring tedious tasks. how do you guys do it on this list? Thanks List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
