Windows Eventlog monitoring

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:13:29AM +0100, Löw Christian wrote:

  ...
> 
> is there a solution to monitor Windows Event-Logs?
> (evntwin.exe - which translates Evenlog-entries to SNMP-Traps - is IMHO 
> very ugly)
> 

there are a number of ways including 

1 Ugly but do-able

Use the MS program whose name escapes me (ELDUMP ?) to periodically
(scheduled by at) converts Event Logs to flat files (with fields
delimited by spaces or commas) and write the file to a share that Nagios
can access and check.

2 Less ugly and do-able

Use a neat-o program like 'Backlog' or 'Snare' that runs on NT as a
service and filters events being sent to the Event Log and writes them
to a syslog server.

I have used the BackLog version on NT4 SP6. GPL, easy to install and
configure, hard to ask for more (Oh, and made in Australia).

There are Nag standard and contributed plugins that can check the logs
on the Syslog server.


> 
> Chris
> 


Yours sincerely.

-- 
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Stanley Hopcroft
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continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.


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