Thursday, March 1, 2007

Command-Line parameter to open the Event Viewer on Another Computer

I use my Event Viewer to look at other computers' Event Logs. This is very usefule, for example, to see what is going on on a SQL Server without Remote Desktop.

Here is a way to start Event Viewer already connected to another computer:

 eventvwr.msc /computer=OTHER_NAME

Where OTHER_NAME is the name of the other computer. I find this useful to set up as an external tool in Enterprise Manager. I set up one for each of my SQL Servers.

Posted by Timothy Chen Allen at 12:32 PM

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  1. AnonymousOctober 6, 2008 at 11:32 AM

    Handy command line tip. Thanks!

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 9, 2009 at 2:26 PM

    Useful post. Thanks.

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  3. http://tenpoundhammer.comMarch 6, 2010 at 2:39 PM

    This was awesome. Used it to recover from a failure where I could only reach the task manager but had to view some logs.

    You can use the first part of this command in the task manager.

    click File -> Run -> eventvwr.msc Awesome.

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