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SCCM 2007: Analyzing a lot of logs

Summary: SMS and ConfigMgr, and possibly other systems, make a lot of logs available in case you have to troubleshoot a tricky problem. If you need to look at some of those logs on a lot of clients or sites, then doing so manually will be very labor intensive. Why not do it via script?

There are a wide variety of problems where you have to look at a lot of logs. For example, the problem might be rare but nasty. Or it might be fairly common but counterintuitive - some people may think that the problem is so unlikely that the small subset of logs you manually look at are not representative of the rest of your clients or servers. Maybe the problem comes and goes. Maybe it occurs under special circumstances but you don't know which ones, yet. Or maybe you're just a perfectionist and you want to find every last problem.

Some relatively simple scripting will allow you to get a computer to do the log analysis.(continue at source)

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