The Event Log actions enable you to backup, clear or search the Windows Event Logs.
Each action has a common options page which allows you specify whether to connect to a remote machine, specifying a username and password, or to connect to the local machine as the current user.
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Local Machine
The action will connect to the local machine, with the credentials of the current user.
Remote Machine
The action will connect to a remote machine, using the specified user account.
Username
The username can be specified either by just the username or DOMAIN/username
Remote Hostname
The computer which to connect to, if the remote computer is in a different domain then that of the current user account, a Fully Qualified Domain Name must be specified. An IPv4/IPv6 may also be specified.