Hi,

OS: Windows 2000 SP2, Perl 5.6.1, 622

Problem:

I'm trying to use WMI to loop through events in Event Viewer's Application log. I am purposely trying to use WMI instead of Win32::EventLog. I'm trying to duplicate results from a vbscript I found on the web by using Win32::OLE. The program creates the object, but fails at the foreach loop. Once created $avents has a value of Win32::OLE=HASH(0x1ab5264), I don't know what this means exactly. The eventcode 1000 (event ID) does exist in the application log.

Sample Code: 

use Win32::OLE qw (in); 
$Computername = 'servername'; 
$Win32_Class ='Win32_NTLogEvent'; 
$Class = "WinMgmts://$Computername"; 
$Wmi = Win32::OLE->GetObject ($Class); 
$if ($aevents = $Wmi->ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM $Win32_Class WHERE Logf
+ileName=Application 

AND Eventcode=1000")) { 

print "yeah...$aevents\n"; # prints yeah...Win32::OLE=HASH(0x1ab5264) 
} 
foreach $aevent (in($aevents)) { # Fails here. 

print "$aevent{TimeGenerated}\n"; 

} 
exit;

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Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Mitch

In reply to WMI EventLog by Mitch

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