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Delmonte
Asked: 2012-08-18 09:21:27 +0800 CST

Can I filter Event Viewer for a determined Exception message?

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O/S: Windows Server 2003. IIS 6.0. There is no SQL-Server.

I'm looking for filtering all events that have this Exception message: "Connection request timed out". Would it be possible? enter image description here

windows-server-2003

2 Answers

  1. Heres my powershell one-liner.
    This will output a table with the the Date and Time of each occurrence on the error. 

    get-eventlog -LogName Application | Select TimeGenerated, Message, Source | where {($_.Message -like "*Connection request timed out*") -and ($_.Source -like "ASP*")}
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  2. Not natively in 2003, but with some scripting it can be done.

    Natively, you're restricted to the filter categories in the screenshot (right click the Event Log in question, View -> Filter...), but with a script you can basically copy out only the events containing certain text to a .evt (Event Log) file and open that up.

    enter image description here

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