[Samba] Gathering EventLog Information from a remote server or workstation

[Lee W]

----- Original Message ----- 
> >If rpcclient eventvwr support is no longer planned, can anyone make any
> >suggestions of how to get the information using Linux/BSD tools.  I have
found a
> >few tutorials on how to get the information using Perl, but these are when
also
> >running Perl from a win32 operating system, I would like to monitor as much
as
> >possible from the Linux boxes (currently using a mixture of SNMP tools, MRTG
&
> >Nagios).
> >
> >Thanks in advance for any assistance offered.
> >
> >Lee.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Actually, I'm interested in this as well, although the best way I know
> to retrieve event log info remotely is through WMI.  Unfortunately,
> there's no WMI implementation outside of Microsoft's on Windows (Windows
> Scripting Host).  The best way I could see to do it would be to
> consolidate all the Event Logs via polling to a text file on a Windows
> box would could be shared or monitored from your Linux box via
> smbfs/nfs, etc.
>
> Clint
>
>

I have sort of looked into this way myself, by writing a little VB program that
runs as a server (not exactly ideal) and then writes the information
to a text or possibly XML file (I need this thing to be automated). However I
feel this not only introduces another point of failure it also requires more
maintenance.  I wonder if there is something like
net-snmp for the windows platform that a special agent could be written, then
all the info could be gathered by any SNMP tool?

The following article may be of use to you:-

http://www.ftponline.com/Archives/premier/mgznarch/vbpj/2001/11nov01/lj0111/lj0111-1.asp
and this
http://www.roth.net/perl/scripts/scripts.asp?wmi-Generic.pl

Regards

Lee