Worklet: Windows Event Viewer - Output Application and System Errors to Activity Monitor

  • 11 February 2021
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Gets the 10 most recent SYSTEM and APPLICATION errors from the Windows Event Viewer logs and outputs them into the Automox Activity Monitor


Evaluation Code


exit 1

Remediation Code


### Gets the 10 most recent SYSTEM errors from the event viewer logs

Write-Host "10 Most Recent SYSTEM Log Errors"

$A = Get-EventLog -LogName System -EntryType Error -Newest 10

Foreach ($B in $A){
"`---"
$B | Select-Object -Property TimeGenerated, EventID, EntryType, Message, Source
}


### Gets the 10 most recent APPLICATION errors from the event viewer logs
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Write-Host "10 Most Recent APPLICATION Log Errors"
"` "
$A = Get-EventLog -LogName Application -EntryType Error -Newest 10

Foreach ($B in $A){
"`---"
$B | Select-Object -Property TimeGenerated, EventID, EntryType, Message, Source
}

From there you can read in the activity monitor, or copy and paste into a text editor and


find:

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replace with:

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To get a cleaner view.


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