community.windows.win_eventlog_entry module – Write entries to Windows event logs

Note

This module is part of the community.windows collection (version 1.11.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.windows.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.windows.win_eventlog_entry.

Synopsis

  • Write log entries to a given event log from a specified source.

Parameters

Parameter

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category

integer

A numeric task category associated with the category message file for the log source.

entry_type

string

Indicates the entry being written to the log is of a specific type.

Choices:

  • "Error"

  • "FailureAudit"

  • "Information"

  • "SuccessAudit"

  • "Warning"

event_id

integer / required

The numeric event identifier for the entry.

Value must be between 0 and 65535.

log

string / required

Name of the event log to write an entry to.

message

string / required

The message for the given log entry.

raw_data

string

Binary data associated with the log entry.

Value must be a comma-separated array of 8-bit unsigned integers (0 to 255).

source

string / required

Name of the log source to indicate where the entry is from.

Notes

Note

  • This module will always report a change when writing an event entry.

See Also

See also

community.windows.win_eventlog

Manage Windows event logs.

Examples

- name: Write an entry to a Windows event log
  community.windows.win_eventlog_entry:
    log: MyNewLog
    source: NewLogSource1
    event_id: 1234
    message: This is a test log entry.

- name: Write another entry to a different Windows event log
  community.windows.win_eventlog_entry:
    log: AnotherLog
    source: MyAppSource
    event_id: 5000
    message: An error has occurred.
    entry_type: Error
    category: 5
    raw_data: 10,20

Authors

  • Andrew Saraceni (@andrewsaraceni)