----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [Samba] Gathering EventLog Information from a remote server orworkstation
> ----- Original Message ----- > > I have sort of looked into this way myself, by writing a little VB program that > runs as a server (not exactly ideal) and then writes the information > to a text or possibly XML file (I need this thing to be automated). However I > feel this not only introduces another point of failure it also requires more > maintenance. I wonder if there is something like > net-snmp for the windows platform that a special agent could be written, then > all the info could be gathered by any SNMP tool? > > The following article may be of use to you:- > > http://www.ftponline.com/Archives/premier/mgznarch/vbpj/2001/11nov01/lj0111/lj0111-1.asp > and this > http://www.roth.net/perl/scripts/scripts.asp?wmi-Generic.pl > > Regards > > Lee Sorry to reply to my own post, but though this may be of use to you. Why bother with complicated programs if you already have a good *IX Box around anyway. Found this utility to log event log information to a syslog server. Once there any number of good (and free) Open-Source tools exist to monitor/filter the log files and all in one place as well. Here is the link:- https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Resources/Documents/UNIX/evtsys/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba