Summary: In Beginner Event 5, you are required to provide the source and number of errors from the application log.
About this event
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Division |
Beginner |
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Date of Event |
4/6/2012 12:01 AM |
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Due Date |
4/13/2012 12:01 AM |
Event scenario
You are a junior server admin on a newly formed team at a medium-sized enterprise company. Your manager is attempting to gain an understanding of which applications are causing problems on your servers. He therefore tasks you to produce a report from each server. The report should list the source and the number of errors from the application log on each server. An appropriate output is shown in the following image.
Design points
- Your solution should be capable of running against a remote machine, but you do not need to do that for this scenario.
- You do not need to check for admin rights. Assume that you will have permissions to query the application log on the computer.
- You should use standard Windows PowerShell cmdlets.
- Your solution does not need to be long, involved, or complicated. It should be simple and straightforward.
- You do not need to write to a text file, but your solution should be easily redirectable to a file when needed.
- You do not need to add comment-based Help.
- Extra points for sorting the output so that the source with the greatest number of errors appears on the top of the list.
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