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The primary purpose of XPath is to address parts of an XML document. It also provides basic facilities for manipulation of strings, numbers and booleans. XPath uses a compact, non-XML syntax. XPath operates on the abstract, logical structure of an XML document, rather than its surface syntax.

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Unexpected results from an XML query filter for security event log

Folks, I am trying to craft a custom XML / Xpath filter to the Windows Event Log viewer to exclude the countless "SYSTEM" Logons from the security log's view. I have managed to get this far with the ...
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I need an XPath query to view all events in the Windows event log (custom view)

In Windows powershell you can type get-winevents without any parameters and it will dump all events. I would like access to all events in the event viewer using a custom view. I can of course just ...
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Windows Event Viewer AppLocker XPath filter

I'm running AppLocker and would like to filter out some noise from the events being logged in Event Viewer using XPath. Specifically, I want to hide any events which related to CMD.exe Here's an ...
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How is PRTG's `channelDiscovery` intended to work?

Developing a (in PRTG-speek) "custom advanced REST sensor" providing XML, I'm facing some problems that the documentation does not really answer. First let's have a look what one of my ...
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