Pull warnings/errors from event viewer via script

Hi

The easiest way is to use something like log parser. You can download it from here
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=890cd06b-abf8-4c25-91b2-f8d975cf8c07&displaylang=en

You can use this to get all sorts of information. To query your application event log for the last 2 months just do
logparser -i:evt -o:csv "SELECT EventLog, RecordNumber,
TimeGenerated, EventID,
EventType, EventTypeName, EventCategory, SourceName,
ComputerName, Message
FROM Application
where TimeGenerated > '2010-07-06 00:00:00' into test.csv"

This should export it out to a CSV file called test.csv

HTH

Erik

Thanks erik_nodland.  So I install this on the pc and then run the command you wrote?

Yep. Just install it and then run the command from the directory where it was installed.

cheers

Erik

I was able to create a quick batch file which launches the parcer app and gets the command switches to run except I am getting this error message:

Error: Syntax Error: extra token(s) after query: 'into'

Thoughts?

Quick snapshot of the script

cd\
cd "c:\program files\log parser 2.2"
logparser -i:evt -o:csv "SELECT EventLog, RecordNumber, TimeGenerated, EventID,EventType, EventTypeName, EventCategory, SourceName,ComputerName, Message FROM Application where TimeGenerated > '2010-07-06 00:00:00' into test.csv"  
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Got it!

Made a quick change to your command (see below):
logparser -i:evt -o:csv "SELECT EventLog, RecordNumber,
TimeGenerated, EventID,
EventType, EventTypeName, EventCategory, SourceName,
ComputerName, Message into test.csv FROM Application where TimeGenerated > '2010-07-06 00:00:00'"

cd\
cd "c:\program files\log parser 2.2"
logparser -i:evt -o:csv "SELECT EventLog, RecordNumber, TimeGenerated, EventID,EventType, EventTypeName, EventCategory, SourceName, ComputerName, Message INTO test.csv FROM Application where TimeGenerated > '2010-07-06 00:00:00'"  

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my ref:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692659.aspx

C:\>LogParser "SELECT TimeGenerated, SourceName,
EventCategoryName, Message INTO report.txt FROM Security WHERE
EventID = 528 AND SID LIKE '%TESTUSER%'" -resolveSIDs:ON

Thanks for your help!!

@erik, if you copy/paste what I put in 33612546 into a new comment, I can accept your answer and award points.

Thanks for the help!!  Hope to work with you again!

-Aaron

Another tool you could look at for this job:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897544.aspx

~bp