A good friend of mine works for a large asp.net shop, with a web farm with many web servers (dozens). The application logs exceptions and messages to the event log on each box (not to a centralized location). Does anyone know of a convenient way to perform unified reporting on event logs on a number of different boxes? Or, which is be...
I create event logs for asp.net projects error logging. I do it by adding a key in regedit, and then a sub-key. Sometimes, I create a new key and sub-key, and instead of getting a new, empty event log, I see in the event viewer that it's showing me the logs from a different project. I'm not able to find a pattern as to when this happens....
I'm looking for a (fairly pain-free) means of adding some Windows Application Event-Log support to a small legacy Delphi 5 application. We just want it to log when it starts-up, shuts-down, fails to connect to a database etc. Several of the solutions/components I've seen seem to suggest that we'll need to make a resource DLL which the ...
I keep getting the following event log descriptions for "svcListener" and "svcListener - Prof" in my Event log. Does anyone know where this comes from and how I can fix this? svcListener The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( svcListener ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information...
If I select to filter the "Application" log in the EventLog viewer, I can see a lot of Sources registered with the "Application" log. How could I programatically enumerate all these sources via C#? And it seems I cannot register my own evento source with "Application" and "System" log, why? BTW: The concept of "event source" is really c...
Windows event log seems to support named data entries in event log events. However I cannot find how to write these events with .NET. Example of such entries: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> <System> <Security /> </System> <EventData> <Data Name="SubjectUserSid">S-1-5-18</Dat...