Hello Everyone,
I have two questions:
1. Does anyone know of a good FREE (or at least, cheap) tool for dumping W2K logs with the following requirements:
- A MUST: can be run from the command line so I can create .bat files and schedule dumps; I am not too fond of GUI tools
- A MUST: be able to dump, besides everything else, the event descriptions (i.e. resolve event numbers to messages); all tools (except for one) that I researched, are immature at that (elogdump, dumpel, eventsave, psloglist); the only one that seems to have this characteristic is DumpEvt from SomarSoft but I cannot get past formatting errors when the tool attempts to convert the event numbers to messages so I get raw data or no data at all for the description.
- A MUST: be able to clear the log after successful dump - also, few tools have this option
- A MUST: be able to export in some format suitable for Excel (CSV, etc.)
- desirable: give me the opportunity to name the dump files myself
- desirable: can be run remotely
2. Does anyone know of a good FREE (or at least, cheap) tool, which runs on Windows 2000, which is the equivalent to Windows XP's dsquery command, which allows me to query the AD? I tried OpenLDAP but it does not seem to be as easy to do queries for, for example, disabled accounts, search string in the Description field of a user, etc... At least, I am not an LDAP and AD architecture guru to be able to pull it off... If it is possible and someone can give me one example, I will probably be able to get it from there...
Thank you for your help in advance!
Dora
I have two questions:
1. Does anyone know of a good FREE (or at least, cheap) tool for dumping W2K logs with the following requirements:
- A MUST: can be run from the command line so I can create .bat files and schedule dumps; I am not too fond of GUI tools
- A MUST: be able to dump, besides everything else, the event descriptions (i.e. resolve event numbers to messages); all tools (except for one) that I researched, are immature at that (elogdump, dumpel, eventsave, psloglist); the only one that seems to have this characteristic is DumpEvt from SomarSoft but I cannot get past formatting errors when the tool attempts to convert the event numbers to messages so I get raw data or no data at all for the description.
- A MUST: be able to clear the log after successful dump - also, few tools have this option
- A MUST: be able to export in some format suitable for Excel (CSV, etc.)
- desirable: give me the opportunity to name the dump files myself
- desirable: can be run remotely
2. Does anyone know of a good FREE (or at least, cheap) tool, which runs on Windows 2000, which is the equivalent to Windows XP's dsquery command, which allows me to query the AD? I tried OpenLDAP but it does not seem to be as easy to do queries for, for example, disabled accounts, search string in the Description field of a user, etc... At least, I am not an LDAP and AD architecture guru to be able to pull it off... If it is possible and someone can give me one example, I will probably be able to get it from there...
Thank you for your help in advance!
Dora
