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Free Security Event Log Forwarder?

Asked by: darkonex

Does anybody know of a good and prefereably free software that could extract failed login attempts in a security event log on a Windows 2003 server to a CSV file?

Basically what the deal is we have a in-house built software that does that now, basically every Monday it simply somehow grabs the failed login attempts on the domain from 2 domain controllers and emails them to me.  For whatever reason this week it suddenly isn't working on 1 DC, I see failed attempts in the DC but the program isn't pulling them out.  This software was built in house long ago so no current programmer knows what it's doing so I need to find something new to replace this.  I simply would like it to do what the in-house software is doing and that is extracting the failed logins from 2 DCs into 2 separate CSV files.  Is there anything out there like this?

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2009-10-19 at 07:27:11ID24823653
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by: leakim971Posted on 2009-10-19 at 07:43:11ID: 25605553

Hello darkonex,

You can easily create a script with powershell for that purpose, have a look here : http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/Windows_Server_2008/Q_23893738.html

Regards.

 

by: astralcomputingPosted on 2009-10-19 at 07:47:50ID: 25605606

psloglist.

it is part of pstools. very powerful.

 

by: darkonexPosted on 2009-10-19 at 14:58:25ID: 25609400

leakim971 that looks like it will take some research on my part as I'm not a scripting guru.  Simple batch files yes, but vbscripts and the like, I'm clueless there.  

Astralcomputing, I'm trying to use your idea as we actually already use pstools for several other things, didn't realize that had a tool for this.  I am very close to getting it with this tool, I can use this string to grab all of the success audit and success failure login attempts for the past 7 days and put it into a CSV file:

psloglist \\DCNAME -i 680 -s -d 7 -o security security > security_audit.csv

However I can't figure how out to make it grab ONLY the AUDIT FAILURE ones.  There is an argument listed in the /help that says:

-f        Filter event types, using starting letter
          (e.g. "-f we" to filter warnings and errors).

But I'm not exactly sure what they mean by starting letter.  I tried -f af for Audit Failure and that didn't work.  I tried other things such as -f f for Failure and that didn't work either.  Any ideas there?  So close if I can just figure out that part I'm golden.

 

by: darkonexPosted on 2009-10-19 at 15:09:29ID: 25609458

Ah I think I figured it out, I just pipe it through FINDSTR /i failure > file.csv and that will only put the audit failures into the CSV.  That did work, thanks so much for the direction.

 

by: darkonexPosted on 2009-10-19 at 15:10:11ID: 31642907

Thanks so much for helping me out this will work great!

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