Chapter 22. Adding Administrative Script to a Web Page

IN THIS CHAPTER

Making administrative Web pages isn't hard, but it can be tough to figure out where to start. I'll walk you through the process step-by-step, and you'll be coding your own pages before you know it.

Administrative Web pages essentially have two elements: HTML and VBScript. The two work together, and often intermingle, within a single Web page, and that can make it tough to figure out where to start when you're creating a Web page. It's easy once you get used to it, though, and in this chapter, I'll show you an example. I'll create a Web page that allows users to pull event log entries from any computer, provided they have the proper credentials to do so. The script will also allow filtering by event ID and source, making it a useful tool for combing through large event log files. While this is certainly a task you can accomplish with the Computer Management console, having this available as a Web page makes it readily accessible to network administrators, and makes it a bit more single-purpose, which can help junior administrators focus on the task at hand.