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Trigger of event logging

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by wodoy.peter

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Is there any way to know when an application (program) is writing an event log?

I have an application which will write into event log of the success start up of the application. I wish to schedule a batch job to run when the application is successfully started.

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by dryflies

There are a couple of ways to do this but using a scheduler is not one of them. you could make a shortcut that launches the program and then delays for a while and checks the event log. or you could write a daemon (service) that periodically checks the event log for changes and then acts appropriatly. Another possibility is writing a service that monitors the system looking for that process which then checks the event log when the process is detected.

by wodoy.peter

I'd found a way to do it using the "eventtriggers" which will be triggered when a certain event with a specific event ID is written to the event log.

For more info, type "eventtriggers /?" in command prompt.

by kigeorge

question concerning the eventtriggers command.. is there a way, when using this command, that you can point to an .exe file that you have created in (for example) vb.net to run, once a specific event has been triggered...

by sovereign_abhi

Dear Sir
Please tell me how can one write a specific log into the event viewer?
I have a log file in the .log format. I want to write it into the event viewer on my system.
You said you ahve an application for the purpose.
Please help me in this regard.

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