How to trigger Windows Events from Snap Creator

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The idea here is to integrate Snap Creator error messages with the windows event system so that Snap Creator logs to event viewer. Snap Creator does not have direct integration with windows event management however it is easy enough to integrate the two. In the Snap Creator config file there are two parameters which need to be configured.

SUCCESS_TRAP - This parameter tells Snap Creator how to handle success messages

SENDTRAP - This parameter tells Snap Creator how to handle error messages and in the event that the SUCCESS_TRAP parameter is empty how to deal with success messages

In order to create windows events the eventcreate cli command can be used. Below is an example of how to get Snap Creator to create both success and error messages in Windows event viewer.

SUCCESS_TRAP=eventcreate /ID 800 /L APPLICATION /SO SnapCreator /T INFORMATION /D %MSG

SENDTRAP=eventcreate /ID 801 /L APPLICATION /SO SnapCreator /T ERROR /D %MSG

Thanks to Sebastian Hegmanns for figuring this out!

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