Hello,
I'm currently testing the 6.2 Feature renderXML=1 for Windows Event Logs, but it seems to me the information which is contained in the XML format differs from the information without XML.
Do you have any experience with renderXML? I don't want to lose crucial data. For example, in the 4728 Event the message field contains valuable data about the changed group information. Is this data lost?
I only could test this in a smaller environment, and noticed a difference, for example the Event 5807:
Plain:
LogName=System
SourceName=NETLOGON
EventCode=5807
EventType=3
Type=Warning
ComputerName=XXXComputerNameXXX
TaskCategory=The operation completed successfully.
OpCode=Info
RecordNumber=171904
Keywords=Classic
Message=During the past 4.24 hours there have been 35 connections to this Domain Controller from client machines whose IP addresses don't map to any of the existing sites in the enterprise. Those clients, therefore, have undefined sites and may connect to any Domain Controller including those that are in far distant locations from the clients. A client's site is determined by the mapping of its subnet to one of the existing sites. To move the above clients to one of the sites, please consider creating subnet object(s) covering the above IP addresses with mapping to one of the existing sites. The names and IP addresses of the clients in question have been logged on this computer in the following log file '%SystemRoot%\debug\netlogon.log' and, potentially, in the log file '%SystemRoot%\debug\netlogon.bak' created if the former log becomes full. The log(s) may contain additional unrelated debugging information. To filter out the needed information, please search for lines which contain text 'NO_CLIENT_SITE:'. The first word after this string is the client name and the second word is the client IP address. The maximum size of the log(s) is controlled by the following registry DWORD value 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters\LogFileMaxSize'; the default is 20000000 bytes. The current maximum size is 20000000 bytes. To set a different maximum size, create the above registry value and set the desired maximum size in bytes.
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XML:
<Event xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event'>
<System>
<Provider Name='NETLOGON'/>
<EventID Qualifiers='0'>5807</EventID>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime='2015-07-30T01:48:37.000000000Z'/>
<EventRecordID>171927</EventRecordID>
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>XXXComputerNameXXX</Computer>
<Security/>
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>4.23</Data>
<Data>39</Data>
<Data>20000000</Data>
<Data>20000000</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
As you can see, some values are missing (Type=Warning, Keywords=Classic, Message=...), and some values have different names (EventType).
Any best practices?
Kind regards
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