Event Log Query Tool (Elogdmp.exe)

by Wayne Maples [Published on 20 April 2004 / Last Updated on 20 April 2004]

Microsoft has released a command-line tool Elogdmp.exe, Event Log Query Tool, as part of the Windows 2000 Resource Kit. You can use Elogdmp to display information from the Event Viewer logs of a local or remote Windows 2000-based computer. This tool dumps the contents of the log in comma-delimited format to the screen or to a file. You can then search the output to find and to view the information that you want. The information that Elogdmp displays include the following:
  • Date
  • Time
  • Source
  • Type
  • Category
  • Event ID
  • User
  • Computer
For example, to display the contents of the DNS server log on a computer named Server2 and to redirect the output to a file named Dnslog.txt, in the E:\Logs folder:
elogdmp server2 DNS Server > e:\logs\dnslog.txt

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The contents of the DNS Server log of Server2 are written to the E:\Logs\Dnslog.txt file in comma-delimited format.

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