lovely, thanks again.
On 26/03/2008, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> mark.a.brand wrote:
> > what about events,
> >
> > for example i only want to return error and warning events for the last
> 4
> > days from all logs. getting all the events and then filtering them will
> be
> > terrribly slow.
>
>
> You let WMI do the filtering. For this, since it's a non-equi
> filter (you want the last 4 days) you'll have to pass the WQL
> through yourself. It's still advantageous to use the wmi
> module for this, even though you're producing your own query,
> since it wraps the results for you as _wmi_objects and gives
> you easy access to their properties, methods etc.
>
> <code>
> import wmi
> import datetime
>
> five_days_ago = datetime.date.today () - datetime.timedelta (5)
> wmi_five_days_ago = wmi.from_time (*five_days_ago.timetuple ()[:-1])
>
> #
> # WQL won't like the line feeds. Strip them out later.
> #
> WQL = """
> SELECT *
> FROM Win32_NTLogEvent
> WHERE (EventType = 1 OR EventType = 2)
> AND TimeGenerated >= "%s"
> """ % wmi_five_days_ago
>
> c = wmi.WMI ()
> for event in c.query (" ".join (WQL.split ())):
> print event.Logfile, \
> event.RecordNumber, \
> wmi.to_time (event.TimeGenerated)
>
> </code>
>
> There's some slight messiness involved in the time aspects
> of this. And I realise that, although the wmi module does
> have a couple of helper functions (to_time and from_time)
> they don't actually play all that well with the datetime
> module. Still, they do return a recognisable tuple which
> you can play with. I'll try to improve them anyway.
>
>
> TJG
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