HP Insight Management WBEM Providers 2.70 for Windows Server 2003/2008 Event Log Messages Reference Guide

6 Suggested Event Log Scraping Method
The suggested method to perform Event Log scraping of actionable events is to use the “Source”
and “Event ID” of the Event log message to determine the specific type of event that occurred.
It is not recommended to parse the event log message text to determine the event type that
occurred.
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