Microsoft has released a command-line tool Elogdmp.exe, Event Log Query Tool, as
part of the Windows 2000 Resource Kit. You can use Elogdmp to display information from the Event Viewer logs of a
local or remote Windows 2000-based computer. This tool dumps the contents
of the log in comma-delimited format to the screen or to a file. You can then
search the output to find and to view the information that you want. The
information that Elogdmp displays include the following:
- Date
- Time
- Source
- Type
- Category
- Event ID
- User
- Computer
log on a computer named Server2 and to redirect the output to a file named
Dnslog.txt, in the E:\Logs folder:
elogdmp server2 DNS
Server > e:\logs\dnslog.txt
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contents of the DNS Server log of Server2 are written to the E:\Logs\Dnslog.txt
file in comma-delimited format.
