[logs] Getting Windows logs through WMI

[Paul Melson]

> Following your suggestion, I do the same test on Windows 2003 Server.
> Simple requests like RecordNumber < 5 are immediate and more complex one
like > 5 take some 
> time but succeed. Therefore, it seems I hit a limitation with Windows
2000. Well, I hope that 
> its market share will decrease fastly.

This confirms one of the possible issues that I suspected.  WMI wasn't part
of Win2K until SP2, and it's no surprise that there are issues with it.  

The other thought I had is that Application logs are far more likely to
contain weirdness due to third-party apps writing to them and that you may
have success with System or Security logs.


> I will try to find some C# code to test simple requests. Maybe the timeout
is server side too.

http://www.usualdosage.com/?p=120


PaulM