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Garth

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More options Apr 22, 7:59 am

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From: "Garth" <S...@spam.ca>

Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:59:21 -0400

Local: Tues, Apr 22 2008 7:59 am

Subject: Re: SMS for reporting all client windows event logs

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umm... There are two things here.

1) "Last 1000 message for a specific computer (Error and Warnings)" is only
SMS / ConfigMgr errors not system errors, and therefore will not give you
what you want.

2) You could import into SMS all of the Events within the Event logs using
an sms_def.mof edit, however I would not recommend it due to the sheer
volume of data. I have no idea how GFI is doing it but if you look at the
default event viewer log size of 20MB each (Vista), you can see this would
make that SMS / ConfigMgr database huge, in no time flat!

What are you trying to do?

"JohnK" <Jo...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:BBB71746-3B87-47C7-91B2-103C613C7D2F@microsoft.com...

>I think I might be duplicating this question, but can I use SMS 2003 to
>show
> me all ‘errors’ and/or ‘warnings’ in the Windows event logs (Application,
> System, Security) in some type of summary report? I’ve looked at tools
> like
> GFI and Event tracker, but I’d rather use SMS since I already have it.
> Perhaps the ‘Last 1000 messages for a specific computer (Errors and
> Warnings)’ report could somehow be modified to cycle through all computers
> in
> a collection?

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