Name
EventLog
Synopsis
This class accesses Windows event logs that are accessible
through the Event Viewer administrative tool.
Windows contains three logs by default: the Application Log,
System Log, and Security Log. The Security Log is read-only,
so you can’t write events to it.
Whenever you need to raise an event, you must select a system-wide
unique event source. This source can be any keyword, as long as it
is unique. To write an event to the Application log, use the
shared two-argument version of WriteEntry()
,
supplying the source name and message as string arguments. If the
source does not exist, it is automatically registered.
You can manually register a new event source several ways. First,
call CreateEventSource()
. If you do not specify
a log name, then your events are registered with the generic
Application Log. Otherwise, a new .evt file
is created (in the %SystemRoot%\system32\config
directory). Alternatively, create
a new EventLog
object, and set Source
, Log
, and MachineName
to the appropriate values. To
delete a source, call DeleteEventSource()
. Delete()
lets you delete an entire log, but be careful
not to delete one of the Windows event logs! GetEventLogs()
allows you to find the logs on
the system, and LogNameFromSourceName()
allows
you to determine the log file for a given source.
You can interact with a log in many ways. Add to it
using WriteEntry()
and remove all log entries by
calling Clear()
. Examine the Entries
property to view the individual log entries. ...
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