Re: Tool to quickly export all logs on a Windows box

[Stephen Mullins <steve.mullins.work () gmail com>]

Thank you all for the replies.

I think psloglist is the tool for the job.  I make use of some of the
other pstools suite applications so I will go that route provided it
does the job.

Thanks again.

Steve Mullins

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Nikhil Wagholikar
<visitnikhil () gmail com> wrote:
> Hello Stephen Mullins,
>
> To answer your first question, you can open Microsoft Event Viewer,
> right click on the Event Log (Application, Security, System ....) and
> select 'Save Log File As' and then select file type as 'TXT (Tab
> delimited). This is the manual method.
>
> For automation of the same process, you can make use of Microsoft Log Parser.
> More Info: 
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=890cd06b-abf8-4c25-91b2-f8d975cf8c07&displaylang=en
>
> For your second question, the simple way is to map (with proper and
> correct permission) the Log folder of Microsoft Windows of remote
> machine to your system or system where you are collecting logs and
> write a script using 'copy' command that will copy those log files
> from mapped drive to your local drive for further analysis. The
> default location of Windows logs are
> <systemdrive>:\WINDOWS\system32\config.
>
> The other option would be to use third party, efficient and effective
> log capturing, monitoring and analysis software such as GFI Events
> Manager.
> More Info: http://www.gfi.com/eventsmanager
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> ---
> Nikhil Wagholikar
> Practice Lead | Security Assessments & Digital Forensics
> Network Intelligence India Pvt. Ltd. [NII Consulting]
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> On 16 February 2010 23:25, Stephen Mullins <steve.mullins.work () gmail com> wrote:
> > List,
> >
> > I am looking for a good, preferably free, tool that is able to export
> > all logs on a Windows box to .txt files quickly.
> >
> > Or, does anyone know of a way to remotely pull all system logs off a
> > Windows box using active directory or SMS?
> >
> > Ultimately I'd like to be able to export all system logs to .txt
> > format using a list of select computer names.
> >
> > Thanks list,
> >
> > Steve Mullins
> >
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