How to run MonitorWareLine Products on Windows Cluster Servers?
You want to run i.e. WinSyslog on a Windows 2003 Cluster but you are not sure if it will work properly on this platform and if there are any […]
Database Logging with MSSQL
This guide helps you to add database logging to any of your services. Microsoft SQL Enterprise Manager 1. To create a new Database, open up the Microsoft SQL Enterprise Manager. […]
How To setup Windows centralized Monitoring
Please Note: This article is valid for EventReporter 8.x and lower in addition to WinSyslog 7.x and lower! Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 systems monitoring is really important for all small to large […]
How do I Add filters for MonitorWare Agent, WinSyslog and EventReporter?
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 […]
How to store custom properties of a log message in a database
Last updated 2016-09-30 by Pascal Withopf, using Winsyslog 13.3. This step-by-step guide describes a scenario where WinSyslog receives syslog data from a Fortigate firewall, parses the messages via post processing action […]
Parsing log messages
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 […]
How to process Syslog messages from Unix/Linux systems with non-standard formatting?
This article describes how to handle syslog messages from Unix/Linux systems that do not follow RFC 3164 standard formatting. The Problem Some Unix/Linux systems (historically Solaris 8/9, but also found […]
Forwarding NT Event Logs to a Syslog Server
Last updated 2016-09-28 by Pascal Withopf, using Winsyslog 13.3. In this scenario, an event log monitor is used to forward all events written to the NT Event Log to a […]
IHE and the syslog message size
This is work in progress, expect updates to this page! This is not yet a real article, but more a lab notebook. I had an interesting discussion on IHE and […]
Creating a simple Syslog Server
Last updated 2016-08-26 by Jan Gerhards, using Winsyslog 13.2. In this scenario, a simple Syslog server will be created. No other services are configured. The Syslog server will operate as a […]