Query windows event log with python

[alex23]

On 12 Jan, 16:09, robey.lawre... at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking to write a short program to query the windows event log.
>
> It needs to ask the user for input for The event type (Critical, Error, and Information), and the user needs to be able to specify a date since when they want to view results.
>
> I understand I will need the pywin32 extension, which i already have installed.
>
> I found this piece of code to start from,
>
> <code>
> import win32evtlog # requires pywin32 pre-installed
>
> server = 'localhost' # name of the target computer to get event logs
> logtype = 'System' # 'Application' # 'Security'
> hand = win32evtlog.OpenEventLog(server,logtype)
> flags = win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_BACKWARDS_READ|win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_SEQUENTIAL_READ
> total = win32evtlog.GetNumberOfEventLogRecords(hand)
>
> while True:
>     events = win32evtlog.ReadEventLog(hand, flags,0)
>     if events:
>         for event in events:
>             print 'Event Category:', event.EventCategory
>             print 'Time Generated:', event.TimeGenerated
>             print 'Source Name:', event.SourceName
>             print 'Event ID:', event.EventID
>             print 'Event Type:', event.EventType
>             data = event.StringInserts
>             if data:
>                 print 'Event Data:'
>                 for msg in data:
>                     print msg
>             print
> </code>
>
> Thanks for any help.
> Robey

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