Hi,
I am looking to write a short program to query the windows event log.
It needs to ask the user for input for The event type (Critical, Error, and
Information), and the user needs to be able to specify a date since when they
want to view results.
I understand I will need the pywin32 extension, which i already have installed.
I found this piece of code to start from,
<code>
import win32evtlog # requires pywin32 pre-installed
server = 'localhost' # name of the target computer to get event logs
logtype = 'System' # 'Application' # 'Security'
hand = win32evtlog.OpenEventLog(server,logtype)
flags = win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_BACKWARDS_READ|win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_SEQUENTIAL_READ
total = win32evtlog.GetNumberOfEventLogRecords(hand)
while True:
events = win32evtlog.ReadEventLog(hand, flags,0)
if events:
for event in events:
print 'Event Category:', event.EventCategory
print 'Time Generated:', event.TimeGenerated
print 'Source Name:', event.SourceName
print 'Event ID:', event.EventID
print 'Event Type:', event.EventType
data = event.StringInserts
if data:
print 'Event Data:'
for msg in data:
print msg
print
</code>
Thanks for any help.
Robey
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