How to access other machines' event log files in a .net web app?

[Guest]

Hello, friends,

We have a .net web app, which will need to access event log files of other
machines in our company's network using System.Diagnostics.EventLog namespace.

In Web.config, we set:

<identity impersonate="true"/>

In IIS Directory Security setting tab, we checked all Authenticated Access,
and unchecked Anonymous Access.

But, it still does not work. When a user visit this web app, he/she has no
problem to visit other pages, except the one that needs to retrieve event log
info from other machines. The error message is:

Access to the registry key is denied.

Any ideas, reference papers? Help please....

Thanks.

 

[Joshua Flanagan]

Is the server you are trying to connect to running Windows 2003 Server?
I think these instructions apply to Windows 2000 as well, you just
don't usually have to worry about it because the default settings work.

See if this helps:

http://flimflan.com/blog/PermissionsOnTheWindows2003ServerEventLog.aspx


Joshua Flanagan
http://flimflan.com/blog