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#90657 - 2002-12-24 03:25 PM Event Log Collation
Stevie Stevie Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2002-01-09 Posts: 199	The situation: As part of a startup script that saves Security log files to a central location and then deletes them off the local machine (each week), the problem arises that 52 log files are created per machine every year. What we would like to do is collapse the set of log files for each machine into 1 log file. However, in doing some preliminary research I can't find a good way to do this. Any ideas? _________________________ Stevie
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#90658 - 2002-12-24 03:49 PM Re: Event Log Collation
Bonji Bonji Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2001-09-28 Posts: 169 Loc: Virginia	The only method I know of without buying a program to do this is to output the event files to a .txt or .csv format. Then use the following command in a DOS window... COPY LOG1.txt + LOG2.txt + LOG3.txt + LOG4.txt FinalLog.txt The .txt files are not readable by the Event viewer so this may not be desirable. I'm also not sure how much information is lost in this transition. To make this KiX friendly use SHELL . -Ben http://www.rgcweb.org/kix
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#90659 - 2002-12-27 01:16 AM Re: Event Log Collation
Stevie Stevie Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2002-01-09 Posts: 199	I was hoping to make it accessible via Event Viewer. The only way I can think to do it is to manually parse out each entry and add it to an existing log file. Not very palatable. _________________________ Stevie
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#90660 - 2002-12-27 01:25 AM Re: Event Log Collation
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	I don't see any benefit of keeping the security logs in a format readable with Event Viewer. It would be far better to collate them into an SQL table and then use SQL queries. There are commercial system like http://www.gfisoftware.com/lanselm that may be of interest. _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#90661 - 2002-12-31 05:29 PM Re: Event Log Collation
Sealeopard Sealeopard KiX Master Registered: 2001-04-25 Posts: 11165 Loc: Boston, MA, USA	You could also do it the KiXtart way with the ReadEventlog() and DBConnOpen(), DBExecuteSQL(), DBConnclose() UDFs. This could all run from a central server reading eventlogs remotely. _________________________ There are two types of vessels, submarines and targets.
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