nteventlog

nteventlog

Module

nteventlog

Module summary

Interface to Windows Event Log

Description

nteventlog provides a generic interface to the Windows event log. It is part of the OS_Mon application, see os_mon(6). Available for Windows versions where the event log is available. That is, not for Windows 98 and some other older Windows versions, but for most (all?) newer Windows versions.

This module is used as the Windows backend for os_sup, see os_sup(3).

To retain backwards compatibility, this module can also be used to start a standalone nteventlog process which is not part of the OS_Mon supervision tree. When starting such a process, the user has to supply an identifier as well as a callback fu