eventlog monitor

Centralized logging in a hybrid environment (Windows/Linux) – Step 2

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 […]

Centralized logging in a hybrid environment (Windows/Linux) – Step 1

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 […]

2011-02-28 MonitorWare Agent 7.2b released

Adiscon is proud to announce the 7.2b release of MonitorWare Agent. This is a bugfixing release. This release only consists of bugfixes: Fixed an issue with percent characters in EventLog Monitor V1 and V2. Fixed an RFC 2822 compatibility issue with hours which could cause problems displaying the correct time in some mailclients. Corrected support […]

How to monitor a Software-Raid on Windows 2003 by using the EventLog Monitor of MonitorWare Agent

How to monitor a Software-Raid on Windows 2003 by using the EventLog Monitor of MonitorWare Agent. Article created 2008-01-17 by Andre Lorbach. This article will guide you in how to monitor a software raid on Windows 2003 by filtering specific events by using the EventLog Monitor in MonitorWare Agent. This is also possible with EventReporter, […]

Can I use the old EventLog Monitor with Vista?

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. […]

How To setup EventLogMonitor V2 Service

How To setup EventLogMonitor V2 Service Article created 2007-04-10 by Florian Riedl Article updated 2011-05-25 by Tom Bergfeld. Please note: Starting with EventReporter 8.3 and MonitorWare Agent 4.3 two different event log monitor services are provided. They are called “Event Log Monitor” (V1) and “Event Log Monitor V2”. In short, the V2 version is recommended […]

How To setup EventLogMonitor Service

How To setup EventLogMonitor Service Article created 2003-02-24 by Rainer Gerhards. Last Updated 2011-05-25 by Tom Bergfeld. Please note: Starting with EventReporter 8.3 and MonitorWare Agent 4.3 two different event log monitor services are provided. They are called “Event Log Monitor” (V1) and “Event Log Monitor V2”. In short, the V2 version is recommended for […]

Configuring Windows for the Event Log Monitor

Article created 2003-05-12 by Rainer Gerhards. Configuring Windows for the Event Log Monitor The event log monitor service pulls events from the Windows event logs. In Windows’ default setup, the information contained in the logs is sparse and far from sufficient for security monitoring. If you are solely interested in checking system health, the default […]

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