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Article created by Florian Riedl Article last updated by Pascal Withopf Please Note: This article is valid for EventReporter, WinSyslog and MonitorWare Agent! Windows systems monitoring is really important for all small to large sized environments. The MonitorWare line of products helps to accomplish this important task. This article is to help you establish a […]
By Rainer Gerhards Microsoft provides integration of 32bit software into the 64 bit world. They have worked quite hard to make any differences invisible to the user and even the programmer. However, there are some subtleties that cannot be totally hidden. One of them can be experienced in the ODBC subsystem. There are actually two […]
Article created by Rainer Gerhards Article last updated by Florian Riedl Monitoring Windows is important even for small environments. Automatically monitored, critical failures can often be avoided. But how to monitor a system without too much effort? The basic idea behind a successful monitoring and alerting system is to centralize all system events at a […]
Article created by Rainer Gerhards. Creating a Rule Set for Database Logging This is a very quick step-by-step guide. It essentially is a step in multiple configurations. You can refer to this guide whenever you need to add database logging to one of your services. To define a new rule set, right click “RuleSets”. A […]
Created by Timm Herget This step-by-step guide describes a scenario where WinSyslog receives syslog data from a Fortigate firewall, parses the messages via post processing action and writes the custom parsed properties into a database. Step 1 – Creating the Syslog Server First, please create the syslog server service by right clicking on “Services” and […]
Created by Michael Meckelein. This article describes how to parse log message via “Post-Process”. It illustrates the logic behind Post-Process action. Get relevant information from logs Log files contain a lot of information. In most cases only a small part of the log message is of actual interest. Extracting relevant information is often difficulty. Due […]
Article created by Rainer Gerhards. In this scenario, an event log monitor is used to forward all events written to the NT Event Log to a syslog server. This can either be another instance of MonitorWare or any standard syslog server, for example on a UNIX platform. The data will be forwarded in the EventReporter […]
Article created by Rainer Gerhards. 1. First, right click on “Services”, then select “Add Service” and then “Event Log Monitor”: 2. Now, you will see the newly created service beneath the “Services” part of the tree view. To check its parameters, select it: As you can see, the service has been created with the default […]
Article created by Hamid Ali Raja. 1. First, right click on “Services”, then select “Add Service” and the “SETP Server”. 2. Now, you will see the newly created service beneath the “Services” part of the tree view. To check its parameters, select it: As you can see, the service has been created with the default […]
Article created by Hamid Ali raja. 1. Start the Application. 2. To define a new rule set right click “RuleSets”. A pop up menu will appear. Select “Add RuleSet” from this menu. On screen, it looks as follows: 3. Then, a window opens. Change the name of the rule to whatever name you like. We […]