The Logging Experts
The Logging Experts
Article created by Andre Lorbach. This article will guide you to use MonitorWare Agent to generate generic SNMP Traps and send them to your SNMP management software. It is also possible to use WinSyslog instead of MonitorWare Agent in some cases, however this article will target the more powerful MonitorWare Agent. This article also requires […]
Article created by Andre Lorbach. This article will help you to monitor SNMP capable devices using the new SNMP Monitor Service of MonitorWare Agent. There are many devices out there which support SNMP, and can also be queried for information’s using SNMP GET. We will use SNMP GET to monitor a device, if we get […]
Article created by Andre Lorbach. This article will guide you in how to setup Windows and MonitorWare Agent to track file and directory deletion processes. It is also possible to use EventReporter instead of MonitorWare Agent, however this article will target the more powerful MonitorWare Agent. The guide works both on Workstation and Server versions […]
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 […]