I have a library that I created with some business logic that includes writing to a System.Diagnostics.EventLog instance. The library is normally called from a Windows Service application, but now I'm trying to call those same library functions from my ASP.NET MVC application. I tried this code inside my controller to create the EventLo...
I'm trying to figure out how to manage my event ids. Up to this point I've been putting each event id in each method manually with each step in a method numbered sequentially. This doesn't allow me to effectively filter events in the event log. In order to use the filter in the event log, it seems that every logged event must have its...
Why is the following code not working? if(EventLog.Exists("Foo")) { EventLog.Delete("Foo"); } if(EventLog.Exists("Foo") == false) { EventLog.CreateEventSource("Foo", "Foo"); EventLog.GetEventLogs().First(x => x.Log == "Foo").ModifyOverflowPolicy(OverflowAction.OverwriteAsNeeded, 0); EventLog.GetEventLogs().First(x ...
Hey Stack Overflow, I am hooking the Security event log with System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogWatcher class, and I am watching Event ID 4625 on a 2008 server box, for incoming failed logins (RDP, specifically). The log capturing is working fine, and I am dumping the results into a queue for related, later processing. However,...
Hello, we are about to start using EventLog as our Centralized Auditing solution. A problem I am facing right now is recording correlation of log entries. For example we have operation that starts in one component and ends in another one. This operation has unique ID. So I need to correlate entries with Operation ID. How to store this ...
Is there any ranges of valid event IDs which should be used by custom applications while logging to Windows EventLog? Or I can use any event ID of my choice (1,2,3,4....). P.S, I am developing in C#.NET. ...
I am seeing the following error in the event log. It is coming from our ASP.Net application. I am having trouble tracking down what is causing the error. Any suggestions appreciated! OS: Windows Server 2000 WebServer: IIS 6 Application: ASP.Net v3.5 Error Log [MachineName] has logged the following Error for IIS Details:...
I have an ASP.Net app .net 3.5 SP1, running in Win7 . During the login process, something within the ASP.Net login control is causing a write to the security log (this sounds acceptable to me) in the event log. The problem is that it seems the app doesn't have permission to do this. There error is: Description: The application attempted...
How to write C#.NET code for Log Size groupbox(in Properties window,Application eventlog,Eventviewer in WIndows XP OS) in EventViewer - Eventlog Properties. Please provide me the code for the same. ...
I've gone to some lengths to improve the error handling in my webservice - in particular, showing the StackTrace as in this example: catch (Exception ex) { EventLog log = new EventLog(); log.Source = g_EventSource; StringBuilder msg = new StringBuilder("Exception in UpdateRecord method has bee...
Hi. I'm trying to add some extended error codes to the event log but I get the following error. The description for Event ID ( 109 ) in Source ( PumpServer ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able...
I have written: . . . //Log exception to the event log if (!EventLog.SourceExists("PodaHIS")) { EventLog.CreateEventSource("PodaHIS", "Application"); } EventLog eventLog = new EventLog(); eventLog.Log = "Application"; eventLog.Source = "PodaHIS"; eventLog.WriteEntry(error.ToString(), EventLogEntryType.Error); I have also enabl...
Is there an event log source that's always available for writing by an ASP.NET webapp? Backstory, in case anyone has a seemingly unrelated solution: Our ASP.NET webapp uses its own event log source, but it doesn't have the rights to create it. So, if the event log source doesn't exist when the webapp tries to write the entry (install ...
Is there a way to get the date/time that a service last started in C#. I'm using this code now to check the status of services: ServiceController sc = new ServiceController(serviceName); // check sc.status for "Running" etc... with a Switch statement... Can I do it with this object? Or need WMI? (Reason: I'm writing a little BizT...
I am using ELMAH to log errors in my asp.net MVC(C#) application. I am able to log errors in xml or database. How to log errors to the eventlog using ELMAH? ...
Hey all, Anyone pretty familiar with FTP 7.5 extensibility in IIS know what I might be doing wrong? I am having serious trouble getting an implementation of IFtpLogProvider to work correctly for custom logging. All I want to do is log failures beyond a static threshold to the event log, and have garbage collection every so often. I've ...
While reading the Traning Guide for the 70-536 exam written by Tony Northup and friends, I came across the following: CAUTION - Avoid EventLog objects in partial trust environments Use of EventLog objects in a partial trust environment can cause serious security holes and should be avoided if at all possible He basically indi...
I need to create a component in a larger pipeline that starts vpn service and waits for a connection to be established before proceeding. I'd like to do this with Powershell if possible. I imagine the logic flow being something like this, but the multithreading aspect is vexing me. create an event log handler start a service wait for a ...
I am using the EventLogReader to query remote 2008 servers for events. The performance of querying the events on a remote machine is horrible (6/sec). If I query the same machine via WMI using a forward-only ManagementObjectSearch the performance is great (1000/sec). I don't see any similar options on the EventLogReader (e.g. ReturnImmed...
When should I log a message to the event log? Is there an accepted best practice for whether a particular event... Needs to be logged to the event log at all Is an error or a warning Is important enough info to logged as an info event in the event log ...