Batch file seetup to run in event viewer not working.

Question

Hi everyone,
Long story short
we have some new Security monitoring software that we use for our clients WHich is written in .net2 and can't pick up the IDs for failures in event viewer as they are in .net4. so what we have done is set up a series of batch files to run through task scheduler
and send the event ID to Application in event viewer that o ur security  monitoring software can read.
This has worked perfectly on all of our servers but for some reason on Windows 7 machines when the batch file is run nothing happens in Application under Event Viewer.
e.g:
Trigger                    Details                                                                                                                                     
Status
On an event            On event- Log:Microsoft-WindowsBackup, Source: Microsoft-WindowsBackup, Event ID100   Enabled
Action                      Details             
Start a program       "C:\PandMon\Microsoft Backup Failure ID100.bat"
This is the batch file:
eventcreate /ID 100 /L APPLICATION /T information /SO Backup /D "Microsoftsoft SBS Backup Failed - Id 100"
Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers :)

Answer 1

Your first step must be to check if the batch file actually runs, e.g. like so:
@echo off
if not exist c:\Logs md c:\Logs
echo %date% %time% >> c:\Logs\Log.txt
eventcreate /ID 100 /L APPLICATION /T information /SO Backup /D "Microsoftsoft SBS Backup Failed - Id
100" 1>>c:\Logs\Log.txt 2>>&1
echo. >> c::\Logs\Log.txt
When you examine the log file then you probably get a good idea about the cause of your problem.