Power Shell Script to Schedule a Event Log Notification Through Email

Power Shell Script to Schedule a Event Log Notification Through Email

Step 1 :    Copy below scripts and paste it in notepad and modified the script.



$HostName = (Get-Wmiobject win32_computersystem).__server
$File1 = "C:\$HostName-System-Error.htm"
$File2 = "C:\$HostName-System-Warning.htm"
$File3 = "C:\$HostName-Application-Error.htm"
$File4 = "C:\$HostName-Application-Warning.htm"
Get-EventLog -LogName "system" -EntryType "error" -After (Get-Date).AddHours(-24) | ConvertTo-HTML | Out-File $File1
Get-EventLog -LogName "system" -EntryType "warning" -After (Get-Date).AddHours(-24) | ConvertTo-HTML | Out-File $File2
Get-EventLog -LogName "application" -EntryType "error" -After (Get-Date).AddHours(-24) | ConvertTo-HTML | Out-File $File3
Get-EventLog -LogName "application" -EntryType "warning" -After (Get-Date).AddHours(-24) | ConvertTo-HTML | Out-File $File4
Send-MailMessage -Attachments $File1,$File2,$File3,$File4 -SmtpServer "your mail-server" -From "$HostName@your domain" -To "reciver@your domain" -Subject "$Hostname Daily Eventlog-Report"

Make changes only where i marked a word in bold color.

 make sure have to enter with in signs " " .

and do not change HostName, it will take automatically from system,as it mentioned 1st line in the script)


and save as .ps1 extension.


Step 2 :   If you want to run this file in power shell.

Open power shell as Run as Administrator

Redirect to script file path.
and type   ./filename.ps1  (  While running you have to mention  ./  before entering filename)


Step 3:         Schedule in Task Scheduler


Go to Create task.
Mention Name
Check the option in Run with Highest privileges
In Trigger, click new and select daily and specify start time.
In Action, Click New, In Program / Script  enter  powershell -file "C:\Filename.ps1"  (specify file location).
Then click ok twice.


And also refer

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Export-Windows-event-log-ecdfadfc