Log Consolidator and Alerter
Log Consolidator and Alerter
Determining the overall performance of a tool is not an easy task. Adiscon sometimes gets asked what the actual performance values for products like WinSyslog and MonitorWare Agent are, especially the processing rate of received syslog messages. This cannot be answered easily, because there are a lot of factors to be considered. Here are the […]
Is the queue limit applied to all services or per service? The queue limit is for all services combined. Be it a syslog listener, eventlog or file monitor. It does not differ between services, the memory queue is for all. The queue is basically to buffer message bursts that are higher than what MonitorWare Agent […]
How to perform a mass rollout? Last Update 2013-01-02 by Florian Riedl A mass rollout in the scope of this topic is any case where the product is rolled out to more than 5 to 10 machines and this rollout is to be automated. This is described first in this article. A special case may […]
How to perform a mass update rollout? Created 2008-10-10 by Florian Riedl A mass rollout in the scope of this topic is any case where the product is rolled out to more than 5 to 10 machines and this rollout is to be automated. This is described in detail in the Article How to perform […]
How to get MonitorWare Agent 4.4 working on Windows NT4? Created 2008-02-28 by Andre Lorbach The last official version of MWAgent which is supported on Windows NT4 is version 3.1 Build 292. Due to customer requests, we have created a special build of MonitorWare Agent version 4.4a which will also work on Windows NT4. However […]
Is SMS-alerting possible with a GSM modem and the Send to Communications Port-Action? Created 2008-02-13 by Florian Riedl. Which tools to use … Every of our products (EventReporter, MonitorWare Agent and WinSyslog) contain a action which is able to send messages to the communications port of the PC. The question is, if it is possible, […]
Default Timevalues Setting in EventReporter/MonitorWare Agent/WinSyslog explained. Created 2008-01-24 by Andre Lorbach. The general options of each product (EventReporter, MonitorWare Agent and WinSyslog) contain a setting for the “Default Timevalues”. This setting can be set to Localtime and UTC (Universal Coordinated Time) which is default. If you switch this setting to Localtime, you may wounder […]
How to use Stored Procedures with ‘write database’? Created 2007-05-08 by Rainer Gerhards. EventReporter, MonitorWare Agent and WinSyslog support stored procedures in their ‘write database’ actions. This option is supported for Microsoft SQL Server only. With other database systems, it might work, but Adiscon does not guarantee it. Stored procedures are used just like database […]
Can I use the old EventLog Monitor with Vista? Created 2007-04-18 by Florian Riedl. Windows Vista available since early 2007. Due to the changes Microsoft introduced with Vista, the procedure for monitoring event logs with the non-Vista event log monitor has changed. Adiscon introduced the native Vista EventLog Monitor V2 which requires no specific prerequisites. […]
I get format message errors (code 317). What does this mean? Created 2007-04-10 by Florian Riedl. You can come across this specific error, by reviewing your EventLog data. The EventLog Monitor writes an entry to the EventLog and then retries. If debug is activated, a entry will be created there, too, looking like this: “2212 […]