PowerShell Windows Eventlog script

Ivo Beerens
Date : February 3, 2009
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Tags : eventlog ,PowerShell ,windows

Here a new PowerShell report-event script.

figure 1. Output reports-event script

You can specify multiple servers in a text file, select how many hours from the current time to look in the eventlog and e-mail the HTML file after generation.

The following syntax can be used:

get-content c:\\script\\servers.txt | c:\\scripts\\report-event.ps1 – report c:\\script\\eventlog.html –hours 48 –smtp mail.beerenss.nl –sendto [eventlogs@beerens.nl](mailto:ivo@ivobeerens.nl) –from [eventlog@beerens.nl](mailto:eventlog@ivobeerens.nl)

Explanation:

get-content c:\script\servers.txt, text file containing the server names

– report c:\script\eventlog.html, name of the HTML file

| c:\scripts\report-event.ps1, call the actually script
–hours 48, hours to report from the curren time
–smtp mail.beerens.nl. SMTP server to sent the HTML rapport
–sendto ivo@beerens.nl , To address
–from eventlog@beerens.nl . from address

Schedule this script to run frequently to watch your eventlogs!

Download the script here.