The source was not found, but some or all event logs could not be searched. Inaccessible logs: Security.

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i want to create a event log in event viewer dynamically by coding i code like this:

C#

if (!EventLog.SourceExists("MySource"))
{
EventLog.CreateEventSource("MySource","MyNewLog"); 
}
// Create an EventLog instance and assign its source.
EventLog eventLog = new EventLog();

// Setting the source
eventLog.Source = "MySource";

// Write an entry to the event log.
eventLog.WriteEntry("An error has been generated by the application", EventLogEntryType.Error, 1002);

Posted 2-Dec-15 18:39pm

venkataramana k

Updated 2-Dec-15 18:52pm

DanielBrownAU

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DanielBrownAU · Answer 1 · 2015-12-02T18:49:00

This is generally caused by having insufficient privileges to read the registry key at HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlo, in this case, the Security key (/log).

Check out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/286060/what-do-i-need-to-change-to-allow-my-iis7-asp-net-3-5-application-to-create-an-e/7848414#7848414[^] for some more detail.

But in short, you’ll need some form of administrator access to create the log source, but once created, a non-administrator can then use it.

-DB

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