Event-o-Pedia EventID 5478 - IPsec Services has started successfully.

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EventID 5478 - IPsec Services has started successfully.

Indicates that IPSec Policy Agent service was successfully started. It must be running to support IPSec policies created by earlier versions of Windows.

Note:
On new deployments of Windows 2008 and Windows Vista IPSec Policy Agent service's policies should not be used. New Policies should be created by using Windows Firewall with Advanced Security.

Find more information about this event on ultimatewindowssecurity.com.

Sample:

Log Name:      Security
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing
Date:          10/27/2009 9:54:26 PM
Event ID:      5478
Task Category: IPsec Driver
Level:         Information
Keywords:      Audit Success
User:          N/A
Computer:      dcc1.Logistics.corp
Description:   
IPsec Services has started successfully.

Log Type:

Windows Event Log

Uniquely Identified By:

Log Name:

Security

Filtering Field	Equals to Value
OSVersion	Windows Vista (2008) Windows 7 (2008 R2) Windows 8 (2012) Windows 8.1 (2012 R2) Windows 10 (2016)
Category	System
Source	Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing
TaskCategory	IPsec Driver
EventId	5478

Field Matching

Field	Description	Stored in	Sample Value
DateTime	Date/Time of event origination in GMT format.	DateTime	10.10.2000 19:00:00
Source	Name of an Application or System Service originating the event.	Source	Security
Type	Warning, Information, Error, Success, Failure, etc.	Type	Success
User	Domain\Account name of user/service/computer initiating event.	User	RESEARCH\Alebovsky
Computer	Name of server workstation where event was logged.	Computer	DC1
EventID	Numerical ID of event. Unique within one Event Source.	EventId	576
Description	The entire unparsed event message.	Description	Special privileges assigned to new logon.
Log Name	The name of the event log (e.g. Application, Security, System, etc.)	LogName	Security
Task Category	A name for a subclass of events within the same Event Source.	TaskCategory
Level	Warning, Information, Error, etc.	Level
Keywords	Audit Success, Audit Failure, Classic, Connection etc.	Keywords
Category	A name for an aggergative event class, corresponding to the similar ones present in Windows 2003 version.	Category	Account Logon
Object Name		-
Whom		-
Object Type		-
Class Name		-
Security ID		-
Account Name		-
Account Domain		-