An out of this world daily system logger!!!
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise...
This is a cool lightweight daily systems logger. Find out what's really happening inside your PC!
Just follow these few steps to set up your own personal logger:
- Click on the big green button in the right hand conner, that says Clone or download. And select Download Zip.
- Once the Zip file has downloaded, extract the folder and search for a file called CaptainsLog.py. So this file is the heart and soul of this program, so whatever you do don't lose it, ok!
- You'll need to edit the following 3 variables in this file accordingly. Do this with any text editor of your choosing. Make sure that each variable references to where that file is stored on your own system.
# This is where all the powershell scripts are stored. (The Log_Script_Library folder)
location_of_powershell_scripts = "C:\\Users\\JamesTKirk\\OneDrive\\Codes\\PythonProjects\\CaptainsLog\\Log_Script_Library\\"
# This is where all the log file will be stored. (You'll have to create this, wherever)
location_of_logs = "C:\\Users\\JamesTKirk\\OneDrive\\Logs\\"
# Number of files stored/allowed in Log folder.
num_logs = 30 If you can get through this without to much crying, we've got a good chance of makeing it to the end of this tutorial.
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Once the variables are edited correctly, all thats left is for us to make the CaptainsLog.py an executable. The following link describes how to do this: https://www.pyinstaller.org/
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You can now take the new CaptainsLog.exe and put it in your systems startup file. This will ensure that each time your computer boots up, the program will be executed and generates a log, which will be placed in the log folder. To open the startup folder, bring up the Run box, type in shell:common startup and hit Enter.
The Log_Script_Library folder, contains a number of Powershell scripts. Each of these scripts pulls a different piece of information form the system. If you have a cool script that you'd like to log, feel free to add it to this file. The program is smart enough to learn/implement the new script automaticaly.
The CaptainsLog.py program is made op of four methods. The CaptainsLog() method runs the whole show. The CaptainsLog() method then makes use of the Script_Runner() method which iterates through the folder containing all the powershell scripts. Inside this method the Powershell_exe() method is used to execute each of the Powershell scripts and dump the output in the newly created Log file. Following this the Maintainer() method comes into play. This method looks at the folder the log files are being stored in and manages it accordingly. It insures that the number of log files in the folder does not exceed the number given to the variable num_logs. Once there are more log files than are allowed, it will start removing the oldest files until the num_logs condition is met.
I'll leave this for you to discover...To boldly go where no man has gone before!
