How To Check Event Logs With Powershell - Get-Eventlog & Get-Winevent. You need to enter one of the group name (system, security, etc,.) for the logname to display the event log details. If you want to find special logs, use keywords.
To actually read event log entries from. This will retrieve the event log entries based on the parameters that you pass. You need to enter one of the group name (system, security, etc,.) for the logname to display the event log details. In the next example, the command displays all events with id 1020 from the system log: Launching event viewer, connecting to a remote computer (or even local computer), and then sifting through logs (or creating filters to sift) seems very cumbersome when i can acheive the same results much faster via powershell. I find it very useful, especially when dealing with remote computers (as i have to at work). $machine = othermachine . To interrupt the command, press ctrl+c. 7 2020 00:00:00 up to, but not including feb. For the list of computers, we can use the same call as for the previous solution only to use the computername parameter and add the list of servers as a txt file.
This will retrieve the event log entries based on the parameters that you pass. Specify the 'computer name' to retrieve logs from the local host. This returns 'classic logs' and 'windows logs'. To actually read event log entries from. You need to enter one of the group name (system, security, etc,.) for the logname to display the event log details. Classic logs are retrieved first. $machine = othermachine . To search an event log for specific words in the event log message, use the message parameter. Maybe i get a lot of events returned with an id of 916, but i want those events with the string svchost in the message. 7 2020 00:00:00 up to, but not including feb. If you want to find special logs, use keywords.
