How do I access Windows Event Viewer log data from Java

Question

Is there any way to access the Windows Event Log from a java class. Has anyone written any APIs for this, and would there be any way to access the data from a remote machine

Answer 1

there are a million (and one) options here ;)

you could look at sigar

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DOUGM/hyperic-sigar-1.6.3-src/docs/javadoc/org/hyperic/sigar/win32/EventLog.html

mind the licensing though....

or you could be quick and dirty and just periodically execute (and capture the output) D:>cscript.exe c:\WINDOWS\system32\eventquery.vbs /v

then use event filtering params to refine the results etc... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772995(WS.10).aspx