Capture Debug events from other applications

[PrOpHeT]

I want to be able to capture debug events on a machine and transmit them to a logging server across a network.

 

I can handle everything except how do I subscribe to debug events on a machine. Obviously it can be done because applications like debug view do it, the question is.. Is there any reasonable way to do it in vb.net?

 

I asked a similar question back in January and to date it still has no responses. Is it just not possible for some reason?

[PlausiblyDamp]

It is a bit trickier than it looks if you want to do this from a separate process - if so http://blogs.msdn.com/jmstall/archive/2005/02/04/367506.aspx is worth a look.

 

If you want to modify an existing application to redirect it's debug output then you want to look at tracelisteners - the built in ones will allow you to log to text and the console for starters.

[PrOpHeT]

I am looking at it like this application A is running on a remote machine and outputting debug information,

 

application B listens to debug events and relays them to a remote server (kind of like using sysinternals debugview in client mode)

 

I am going to read through the blog and then post back if I still have questions, thanks.

[PrOpHeT]

Just in case someone has a similar problem, I found the solution here (more so had it graciously pointed out in the other forum)

 

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/trace/DbMonNET.aspx

 

(Almost like it was written specifically to answer my question ;))