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How do I apply filters in MonitorWare Agent, WinSyslog and EventReporter?

Article created by Tamsila-Q-Siddique. MonitorWare Agent, WinSyslog and EventReporter enables you to apply filters to achieve your desired results. This step-by-step guide will help you through creating these filters. You can: Add a filter Update a filter Delete a filter Please note: WinSyslog and EventReporter are subset of MonitorWare Agent i.e. MonitorWare Agent has all […]

How do I Add filters for MonitorWare Agent, WinSyslog and EventReporter?

Article created by Tamsila-Q-Siddique. 1. You would at least need the Basic Edition of MonitorWare Agent / WinSyslog / EventReporter for this scenario. Please Note: We are using MonitorWare Agent in this guide whereas MonitorWare Agent is superset of WinSyslog and EventReporter. So this guide is also applicable for WinSyslog and EventReporter. 2. When the […]

Concept of Indexing

What are indexes? An index Is sorted by key values, (that need not be the same as those of the table) Is small and has just a few columns of the table. Refers for a key value to the right block within the table. Speeds up reading a row, when you know the right search […]

The EventReporter Service 7.0

The service operates in the background while your computer is running. The EventReporter 7.0 is installed as a system service during setup. It typically runs on each machine being monitored. However, some machines can also be dedicated to run it for housekeeping functions (for example log consolidation). The EventReporter 7.0 can be “engine only” installed. […]

TCP

A reliable IP transport protocol. TCP communication ensures that no packets are lost in transit. As such, it is most useful in low-bandwidth or unreliable environments. Examples are slow WANs or packet radio networks.

IETF

The IETF is an important Internet standards body. IETF is a short name for “Internet Engineering Task Force”. The IETF is responsible for the creation of RFCs. Unlike other, formal standards bodies it is loosely organized. There is no specific membership to the IETF, anyone (knowledgable) can become an IETF member just by paritcipating on […]

SETP

SETP is the “Simple Event Transfer Protocol” SETP allows reliable delivery of events between SETP supporting systems. SETP was developed for MonitorWare Agent basically and now it is added in the EventReporter 6.2 Professional version and WinSyslog Enterprise Edition as well.WinSyslog works as SETP client, only. It can forward only SETP messages. Whereas the WinSyslog […]

RFC 3195

RFC 3195 is a relatively new IETF standard. It specifies how syslog messages can reliably be transmitted via a TCP connection. RFC 3195 optionally allows for message encryption and authentication of sender and reciver. Adiscon’s MonitorWare line of products implement the core RFC 3195 protocol (actually, Adiscon was the first one to do this on […]

Why care about disk free space?

By Rainer Gerhards The obvious answer is that low free space means upcoming problems, like the inability to receive mail (for mail servers) or the inability to store new files (for file servers). There are numerous obvious reasons why free space is an operations management priority. But there are also less obvious reasons: disk space […]

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