Activities

• Get Event Log Entries
• Send Event Log Message

Get Event Log Entries

This activity gets a collection of Event Log Entries based on the parameters specified.

Activity Parameters

The Get Event Log Entries activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

• Computer IP Address (text box editor type) (type: string): the computer IP address or computer name where you want to log the message. Not required when used locally.
• Date Start (calendar control) (type: string): the starting date of the entries you want to retrieve. Date should be in the following format: 'dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss', for example "17/05/2016 07:00:00", which will search for all event logs starting May 17, 2016, 07:00 AM.
• Event Log level (combo box control) (type: string): the Event Log Level of the log which will be retrieved. By default, Flowster Studio provides Critical, Error, Info, Warning and Verbose as options.
• Event Log Name (combo box control) (type: string): the Event Log Name of the log which will be retrieved. By default, Flowster Studio provides Application, System, Security, Setup and ForwardedEvents as options.
  NOTE: this field is also editable. By double clicking the field, it can be inserted the desired Event Log Name. For example, Windows PowerShell, as seen in Event Viewer:
  
  
  
  
• Full Username (text box editor type) (type: string): the domain and username which will be used when accessing event logs from a remote computer (e.g. "fmrp\demouser").
• Password (text box editor type) (type: string): the password for the remote computer username.
• Password Binding (text box editor type) (type: string): bind to a variable containing the encrypted value for the remote computer username.
• Source (text box editor type) (type: string): the source name or leave blank if you want to retrieve all. The source name should be entered with the exact name as in Event Viewer, for example "PowerShell".
  NOTE: the Source Name is not necessarily the one seen in  the event logs table (Source/Quelle). This name should be taken from Event Viewer by following the next steps:
  • select an event log
  • go to Details
  • expand System
  • select the value from Provider - Name:
    
    

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

• Entries Collection (type: collection<collection<string>>): outputs a collection containing Event Log entries.

Execution: the activity will retrieve event logs based on the given input. The output will be a collection of event logs and their attributes:

Send Event Log Message

This activity creates an entry in the Windows Event Log within the selected folder.

Activity Parameters

The Send Event Log Message activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

• Computer IP Address (text box editor type) (type: string): the computer IP address or computer name where you want to log the message.
• Event Log Name (combo box control) (type: string): the Event Log Name. This can be Application, System or Security.
• Message (text box editor type) (type: string): the Event Log message. It will be logged under the Event Log Type chosen section.
• Source (text box editor type) (type: string): the source name. It will be created if does not exist.

As mentioned above, the values for all the required parameters can be provided by IN arguments or variables. Below is an example of predefined arguments, ready to be used by the Send Event Log Message activity:

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

• Output Status (type: boolean): outputs the result status. If the operation succeeded then TRUE, otherwise FALSE.