Martin stole my mantra! See the following "RFC", The Twelve Truths of Networking, #7A is "Good, Fast, Cheap, pick any two (you can't have all three).
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1925.html That said, dumpevt works well, you can wrap that in some logic to do what you said you needed, then get real comfortable with GREP. ----------------Snippet Start ------------------------- @echo off REM - clearevt.cmd - Use for BB&T postinstall procedure REM - Clear the 3 event logs, save to one txt file and cleanup. REM - Kevin Flanagan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] REM - Requires the dumpevt.exe from somarsoft dumpevt /clear /logfile=sys /outfile=c:\eventsys.txt > c:\eventclear.log dumpevt /clear /logfile=sec /outfile=c:\eventsec.txt >> c:\eventclear.log dumpevt /clear /logfile=app /outfile=c:\eventapp.txt >> c:\eventclear.log REM - Copy all 3 logs to a single file, you could make this be named for the server, and send it to a share. copy c:\eventapp.txt + c:\eventsec.txt + c:\eventsys.txt + c:\eventclear.log c:\ Eventlogdump.txt REM - Clean up after yourself del c:\eventapp.txt del c:\eventsec.txt del c:\eventsys.txt del c:\eventclear.log ---------End snippet -------------- Good luck, Kevin +__________________________________________+ A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Winston Churchill Kevin M. Flanagan C/S Planning Engineer III IT Systems Implementation Branch Banking & Trust 3261 Atlantic Ave Suite 116 Raleigh, NC 27604 919-716-6209 > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 9:41 AM > To: MSWinNT Discussions > Subject: RE: Event Log Capture > > > You can have it fast, cheap, or easy. Please pick 2. > > -----Original Message----- > From: julian brunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 1:51 AM > To: MSWinNT Discussions > Subject: Event Log Capture > > > > I hope you can help me again here. > > I have had one of those 'requests' where the company wants an > amazing tool, > for nothing. > > The company wishes to collect the events from numerous W2K > servers and > produce a report on certain events. > > Now is there a product or script that can go and collect all > the events from > > multiple servers and at least place them all into a CSV file. > @ leaset a > query can be paced on a file. > > Thanks for youe assistance in advance > > Julian > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > > ------ > You are subscribed > as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------ > You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
