How to Clear the Event Log

[Aapti]

Hello everyone,

I Have A Windows System installed With 2 gb Ram , I want to know how to clear the event log, or Can we set it to 1 month. so that it Self- Clean itself After 1 month , Is there any Setting that will allow me do this or any Script File PLease Provide a Way to clear my event logs Thanks in Advance for your responses.

[Humberto]

Clearing the event data for a specific member deletes all of the event data from the Application Center event database for the member. For that reason, you will be unable to view or generate a report for the cluster member from this data. You might want to archive the event data before clearing it.

To clear the event data from the event log for a specific member

• In the Application Center snap-in, expand the cluster node, and then expand the Members node.
  
• Right-click the member's Events node, and then on the pop-up menu, click Clear events.

[jesse]

To clear an event log's contents programmatically

• Create an instance of the EventLog component and set the necessary properties to configure it
  
• Use the Clear method to clear the contents of the appropriate event log.

Your code should look something like this:

• Visual Basic
  EventLog1.Clear()
  
  
• C#
  EventLog1.Clear();
  
  
• J#
  EventLog1.Clear();

[Lillebror]

The following script clears the Security event log after backing it up to a folder mentioned in the script. To run the script, copy the following contents to Notepad, and save the file with .vbs extension. Double-click to run the file.

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate, (Backup, Security)}!\\" _
& strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colLogFiles = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_NTEventLogFile where LogFileName='Security'")
For Each objLogfile in colLogFiles
OutputFile = "C:\" & "Security "
OutputFile = OutputFile & Day(Now) & "-" & month(now) & "-" & year(now)
OutputFile = OutputFile & ".evt"
errBackupLog = objLogFile.BackupEventLog(OutputFile)
If errBackupLog = 0 Or errBackupLog = 183 Then
objLogFile.ClearEventLog()
Else
Wscript.Echo "The Security event log could not be backed up."
End If
Next