Ok, I’ve built a working service that utilize the event driven Event log functionality built into .Net’s EvenLog class – and not the newer System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader classes because I’m having problems getting it to properly return all the data I require.
This new service (a Windows service) runs alongside the existing EventScavenger service. It does not replace it since there are core functionality it lacks (and always will). For example – there is no guarantee that it will capture every event generated in the event log and any entries that get logged while it is not running will be missed – this include past entries as well. So I’m contemplating running both services side-by-side, first for testing but also probably in the future. The only real benefit of the new service is that it keeps the data stored in the database much more ‘up to date’ in case that is what you want. However, EventScavenger was created in the beginning to do the opposite – to be able to look up events in the past and do some reporting on it. Perhaps the combination of both old and new services together can be of use to some.
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