Remotely viewing event log without full access to server

Discussion in 'Windows Server' started by Mehdis, Dec 7, 2009.

  1. Mehdis

    Mehdis Guest

    Hi,

    I'd like to know if it is at all possible to allow a domain user to access
    the event log on a remote server (say server 2003 standard or 2008 R2) but
    not have the ability to log into the server itself. For example, to allow
    someone to monitor the server logs but not allow them to make any changes to
    the server itself.

    Much appreciated.
     
    Mehdis, Dec 7, 2009
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  2. Mehdis

    Pegasus [MVP] Guest

    I don't know if there is a type of permission for this narrow activity.
    However, there is another way: You could schedule a script to run on that
    server and get it to extract all or some logs, then send them by EMail to
    one or several recipients.
     
    Pegasus [MVP], Dec 7, 2009
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  3. Mehdis

    ME Guest

    ME, Dec 8, 2009
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  4. Mehdis

    Mehdis Guest

    Thanks for the suggestion Pegasus and also for the link ME it was very
    useful. I also found this which could be used:

    http://www.dscoduc.com/2008/03/Eventlog-Viewer/

    I've seen that Win Server 2008 has a Event Log Readers group. I think that
    may solve the problem to read the logs on Server 2008.
     
    Mehdis, Dec 10, 2009
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