im_vistalog
I am a bit confused by the documentation on nxlogce. Below is my sample config. It collects some of the logs just fine but does not collect the logs that I want. Security comes through just fine, application not so much, and system is spotty. I would like to explictyly define Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager/Operational. If that is not possible I would like to get the forwarded logs from a logcollector and index them. I have tried the documented query statements
Query <QueryList>\
<Query Id="0">\
# <Select Path="Security">*</Select>\
<Select Path="System">*</Select>\
<Select Path="Application">*</Select>\
<Select Path="Setup">*</Select>\
<Select Path='Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager/Operational'>*</Select>\
</Query>\
</QueryList>
and this does not seem to work. If I just leave the sataement as below I do get some messages back but not all, Do I need to buffer my messages to get everything flowing through?
## This is a sample configuration file. See the nxlog reference manual about the
## configuration options. It should be installed locally and is also available
## online at http://nxlog.org/nxlog-docs/en/nxlog-reference-manual.html
## Please set the ROOT to the folder your nxlog was installed into,
## otherwise it will not start.
#define ROOT C:\Program Files\nxlog
define ROOT C:\Program Files (x86)\nxlog
Moduledir %ROOT%\modules
CacheDir %ROOT%\data
Pidfile %ROOT%\data\nxlog.pid
SpoolDir %ROOT%\data
LogFile %ROOT%\data\nxlog.log
<Extension gelf>
Module xm_gelf
</Extension>
<Input Eventlog>
# Use 'im_mseventlog' for Windows XP and 2003
Module im_msvistalog
</Input>
<Output outevt>
Module om_tcp
Host myhost.mycomany.local
Port 1338
OutputType GELF
</Output>
<Route Eventlog>
Path Eventlog => outevt
</Route>
The Query XML is passed to the Windows Eventlog API as is, so you will get the exact same messages as in Event Viewer.
Perhaps you would want to use the following to retrieve existing events while testing:
ReadFromLast FALSE
SavePos FALSE