Log Consolidator and Alerter
Log Consolidator and Alerter
Adiscon is proud to announce the 14.4 release of MonitorWare Agent. In this recent update, a significant enhancement has been made to the Syslog Action. It now robustly prevents concurrent TCP connection establishment retries in the rare case of an action attempting to open multiple connections to the same target simultaneously. Additionally, we’ve improved error […]
SMTP The “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol”. This is an Internet standard for sending email messages. Virtually all major email systems are either based on SMTP or at least offer gateways to SMTP capable systems. SMTP is used for sending email. It can not be used to pick up email messages. For this purpose, protocols like […]
Step 4 – Setting up the Linux Clients We still need to implement the Linux clients into our logging network. This could be Linux workstations or servers. Currently, rsyslog is already shipped with many Linux Distributions as the default syslog daemon already. Though, often a rather old version is installed (mostly v3), this will be […]
Step 3 – Setting up the other Windows Servers We already have the central server and the regular Windows clients set up. We now need to set up the other Windows servers. We assume, that we have other Windows 2008 Servers. On these servers we want to monitor the local Event Log and textfile-based log […]
Step 2 – Setting up the Windows Clients Setting up the Windows Clients is rather easy. To do this, we only need to have EventReporter installed. EventReporter will be configured to pull the Windows Event Logs and forward them to our central syslog server via TCP syslog. Our example system will be Windows XP. When […]
Step 1 – Setting up the central log server: The central log server is the most important part of our central log storage and thus will be configured as the first part. And due to all the things it needs to do, it has the most work of course. When selecting your machine to install […]