Everyone involved in the IT sphere knows about event log monitoring tools, which are essential parts of each operating system. Information about event logs itself is extremely important to manage an operating system, a server, or a network. Thus, its monitoring should be on a very professional level.
Each system administrator carefully monitor every single event log to make sure that the system works properly and there is no one trying to break into the system. This is why a carefully designed and strictly working event log manager is a must.
Event monitoring is not an easy task at all. While an administrator can receive and analyze logs easily, there is a huge system behind it, which gathers information about everything going on in the system and notifies the administrator. Event log monitoring can’t be realized easily by installing a single software component, it is a system of various components, all synced with each other.
Notifying about system logs is not the only duty of the monitoring system. Another major problem the system faces is operating system change. Whenever the operating system is changed, all log files change their format. Thus, all log formats are in turn changed to comply with the new system. Event log monitoring is able to handle such changes and make sure that no information will be lost due to format changes.
Event log monitoring is a solution, usually consisting of the following tools: Event Alarm, Event Archiver, Event Viewer, and Event Analyst. Read the related posts to learn more details about each tool separately and get a better idea about how the tools function.
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