I went about this a bit differently, but this approach generates emails on new events that match a custom filter, with all the event details included in the email body. 1) Create a ‘Custom View’ in the Event Viewer with your desired filter. 2) Once you have the view, you should see a link to … Read more
You can increase the backlog by modifying -b 320 in /etc/audit/audit.rules to something larger and see if it has any effect, but these amounts you show us still very few audit results, so I doubt the audit error has anything much to do with the system freezing in itself. Its probably just a sympthom of … Read more
Other than the awful performance and ridiculous wait times when you have to load a 4 GB log and the hell it will be if you ever have to search through such a monstrous thing, not much. I think the largest one I’ve seen in my environments was 10 GB, and although I gave up … Read more
All times displayed for event log events are computed as offsets to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). When you set the time on your system, you are setting the value for GMT. When you select your local time zone for the system, the appropriate number of hours are added or subtracted to the stored GMT value. … Read more
This Event is usually caused by a stale hidden credential. Try this from the system giving the error: From a command prompt run: psexec -i -s -d cmd.exe From the new cmd window run: rundll32 keymgr.dll,KRShowKeyMgr Remove any items that appear in the list of Stored User Names and Passwords. Restart the computer.
Windows Server has a built in SNMP trap generator for the Windows Event Log/Viewer, which can send traps on the occurrence of arbitrary events. Trap Form (OID) These traps will conform to the Microsoft private enterprise MIB branch in the following form: 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.13.X.n.n.n.n.n.n.n.n.n… Each “n” is a decimal encoding of an ASCII character octet from … Read more
You’re on the right track – one of the mistakes in your query is the space in ‘Logon Type’, it should just be ‘LogonType’. I pasted a query below that I have just verified works. It’s a bit simplified but you get the idea. It shows you all 4624 events with logon type 2, from … Read more
Microsoft purposely prevents you from doing this. The whole concept of the Event Viewer is to present to you certain events that may require your attention. If one could go in and delete any random event, then the system could – in a sense – be compromised without you knowing, therefore making it unsafe. If … Read more
With Windows 2000/Server2003/Windows XP, the logs are stored in the %SystemRoot%\System32\Config directory, with an .evt extension. With Server 2008/Vista and up, the log are stored in the %SystemRoot%\system32\winevt\logs directory, and have an .evtx extension. It’s possible to convert old .evt files to the newer .evtx format Within the Computer Manager you can also export them … Read more
In the System event log, filter by event id 1074, this will show by which process and on behalf of which user a reboot was initiated. This was tested on Windows Server 2008.