Monitoring Event Logs

Monitoring event logs made simple through event log manager

Ever wondered how administrators deal with the thousands of event logs generated daily on the systems configured to a network? Monitoring event logs is not an easy matter, but something which cannot be avoided. With increasing number of event logs generated on a daily basis, it becomes a growing concern for organizations to track them down as well as save them for future use.

Monitoring event logs is all the more important for organizations to stay clear from security issues and execute regulatory compliances. Real time monitoring of event logs equips organizations to address network security concerns even in emergencies. However, Windows event log viewer application is not sufficient alone to manage so many event logs within a network.

Also, the event log status reports which are found through this in-built application are often not very informative. On top of that, issues like searching or deleting a particular event log, saving certain event logs in a different location or mailing the logs is not possible with event log viewer utility. To address such problems, it is best to use efficient event log management software.

Monitoring event log in a network can be overwhelming, but with proper tools, the work can be easily tackled. Software tools like Lepide Event Log Manager assist with monitoring event log and maintaining SQL database to store logs generated in an entire network. Furthermore, this software helps organizations in complying by several regulatory acts like SOX, PCI, HIPAA and GLBA.

Processing and maintaining archives of event logs becomes easier with options to create and manage computer groups, filter out event types, managing event collection, monitoring event log through queries, setting alerts (through emails and pop up messages) for particular type of events, generating reports for event logs and mailing event log reports. Tracking events through event log management software also helps in the process of IT auditing by keeping records in a documented form.