1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>eventlogadm</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.0"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="eventlogadm.8"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>eventlogadm — push records into the Samba event log store</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="literal">eventlogadm</code> [<code class="option">-d</code>] [<code class="option">-h</code>] <code class="option">-o</code> 2 <code class="literal">addsource</code> 3 <em class="replaceable"><code>EVENTLOG</code></em> 4 <em class="replaceable"><code>SOURCENAME</code></em> 5 <em class="replaceable"><code>MSGFILE</code></em> 6 </p></div><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="literal">eventlogadm</code> [<code class="option">-d</code>] [<code class="option">-h</code>] <code class="option">-o</code> 7 <code class="literal">write</code> 8 <em class="replaceable"><code>EVENTLOG</code></em> 9 </p></div><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="literal">eventlogadm</code> [<code class="option">-d</code>] [<code class="option">-h</code>] <code class="option">-o</code> 10 <code class="literal">dump</code> 11 <em class="replaceable"><code>EVENTLOG</code></em> 12 <em class="replaceable"><code>RECORD_NUMBER</code></em> 13 </p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2483543"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This tool is part of the <a class="citerefentry" href="samba.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(1)</span></a> suite.</p><p><code class="literal">eventlogadm</code> is a filter that accepts 14 formatted event log records on standard input and writes them 15 to the Samba event log store. Windows client can then manipulate 16 these record using the usual administration tools.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2483573"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><code class="option">-d</code></span></dt><dd><p> 17 The <code class="literal">-d</code> option causes <code class="literal">eventlogadm</code> to emit debugging 18 information. 19 </p></dd><dt><span class="term"> 20 <code class="option">-o</code> 21 <code class="literal">addsource</code> 22 <em class="replaceable"><code>EVENTLOG</code></em> 23 <em class="replaceable"><code>SOURCENAME</code></em> 24 <em class="replaceable"><code>MSGFILE</code></em> 25 </span></dt><dd><p> 26 The <code class="literal">-o addsource</code> option creates a 27 new event log source. 28 </p></dd><dt><span class="term"> 29 <code class="option">-o</code> 30 <code class="literal">write</code> 31 <em class="replaceable"><code>EVENTLOG</code></em> 32 </span></dt><dd><p> 33 The <code class="literal">-o write</code> reads event log 34 records from standard input and writes them to the Samba 35 event log store named by EVENTLOG. 36 </p></dd><dt><span class="term"> 37 <code class="option">-o</code> 38 <code class="literal">dump</code> 39 <em class="replaceable"><code>EVENTLOG</code></em> 40 <em class="replaceable"><code>RECORD_NUMBER</code></em> 41 </span></dt><dd><p> 42 The <code class="literal">-o dump</code> reads event log 43 records from a EVENTLOG tdb and dumps them to standard 44 output on screen. 45 </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="option">-h</code></span></dt><dd><p> 46 Print usage information. 47 </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2483724"></a><h2>EVENTLOG RECORD FORMAT</h2><p>For the write operation, <code class="literal">eventlogadm</code> 48 expects to be able to read structured records from standard 49 input. These records are a sequence of lines, with the record key 50 and data separated by a colon character. Records are separated 51 by at least one or more blank line.</p><p>The event log record field are:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p> 52 <code class="literal">LEN</code> - This field should be 0, since <code class="literal">eventlogadm</code> will calculate this value. 53 </p></li><li><p> 54 <code class="literal">RS1</code> - This must be the value 1699505740. 55 </p></li><li><p> 56 <code class="literal">RCN</code> - This field should be 0. 57 </p></li><li><p> 58 <code class="literal">TMG</code> - The time the eventlog record 59 was generated; format is the number of seconds since 60 00:00:00 January 1, 1970, UTC. 61 </p></li><li><p> 62 <code class="literal">TMW</code> - The time the eventlog record was 63 written; format is the number of seconds since 00:00:00 64 January 1, 1970, UTC. 65 </p></li><li><p> 66 <code class="literal">EID</code> - The eventlog ID. 67 </p></li><li><p> 68 <code class="literal">ETP</code> - The event type -- one of 69 "INFO", 70 "ERROR", "WARNING", "AUDIT 71 SUCCESS" or "AUDIT FAILURE". 72 </p></li><li><p> 73 <code class="literal">ECT</code> - The event category; this depends 74 on the message file. It is primarily used as a means of 75 filtering in the eventlog viewer. 76 </p></li><li><p> 77 <code class="literal">RS2</code> - This field should be 0. 78 </p></li><li><p> 79 <code class="literal">CRN</code> - This field should be 0. 80 </p></li><li><p> 81 <code class="literal">USL</code> - This field should be 0. 82 </p></li><li><p> 83 <code class="literal">SRC</code> - This field contains the source 84 name associated with the event log. If a message file is 85 used with an event log, there will be a registry entry 86 for associating this source name with a message file DLL. 87 </p></li><li><p> 88 <code class="literal">SRN</code> - The name of the machine on 89 which the eventlog was generated. This is typically the 90 host name. 91 </p></li><li><p> 92 <code class="literal">STR</code> - The text associated with the 93 eventlog. There may be more than one string in a record. 94 </p></li><li><p> 95 <code class="literal">DAT</code> - This field should be left unset. 96 </p></li></ul></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2481590"></a><h2>EXAMPLES</h2><p>An example of the record format accepted by <code class="literal">eventlogadm</code>:</p><pre class="programlisting"> 97 LEN: 0 98 RS1: 1699505740 99 RCN: 0 100 TMG: 1128631322 101 TMW: 1128631322 102 EID: 1000 103 ETP: INFO 104 ECT: 0 105 RS2: 0 106 CRN: 0 107 USL: 0 108 SRC: cron 109 SRN: dmlinux 110 STR: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly) 111 DAT: 112 </pre><p>Set up an eventlog source, specifying a message file DLL:</p><pre class="programlisting"> 113 eventlogadm -o addsource Application MyApplication | \\ 114 %SystemRoot%/system32/MyApplication.dll 115 </pre><p>Filter messages from the system log into an event log:</p><pre class="programlisting"> 116 tail -f /var/log/messages | \\ 117 my_program_to_parse_into_eventlog_records | \\ 118 eventlogadm SystemLogEvents 119 </pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2481639"></a><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.0.25 of the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2481650"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p> The original Samba software and related utilities were 120 created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the 121 Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the 122 Linux kernel is developed.</p></div></div></body></html> 123