{"id":700,"date":"2008-08-24T09:56:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T13:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/24\/pivot-table-analysis-of-the-event-log\/"},"modified":"2008-08-24T09:56:35","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T13:56:35","slug":"pivot-table-analysis-of-the-event-log","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/24\/pivot-table-analysis-of-the-event-log\/","title":{"rendered":"Pivot Table Analysis of the Event Log"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I had to investigate a problem with our SMTP server. One of things I wanted to know was when the SMTP problems started. Like most computer problems multiple event IDs were were being triggered each time a problem occurred. The Pivot Table Wizard is a great tool for quickly summarizing the event log data. Here is how I did it.<\/p>\n

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  1. Open the Event Viewer, filter your view to the event source you are interested in, export the list, and transfer the exported list back to your work station. <\/li>\n
  2. Open a new blank worksheet in Excel and import the data using the Import External Data Wizard. <\/li>\n
  3. Open the Pivot Table Wizard. Drop the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Date\u00e2\u20ac\u009d into the row area. Drop the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Event\u00e2\u20ac\u009d field into the column area. Drop any other field into the data area. I used the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Source\u00e2\u20ac\u009d field. You should now have a pivot table that has columns for each event ID and a count of the number of events per day per event ID. <\/li>\n
  4. I prefer the data to sorted in descending order so I went into the Advanced Field properties for the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Date\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and set it to descending. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In my case with the pivot table analysis I could see that one event ID, 4000, was the primary event. The rest of the event IDs were secondary events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Recently I had to investigate a problem with our SMTP server. One of things I wanted to know was when the SMTP problems started. Like most computer problems multiple event IDs were were being triggered each time a problem occurred. The Pivot Table Wizard is a great tool for quickly summarizing the event log data. … Continue reading “Pivot Table Analysis of the Event Log”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sbs","tag-sbs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iN3d-bi","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}