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Event Log monitoring is the core part of EventSentry and our filtering system gives you countless configuration options to achieve almost any goal. You define which event log messages you are interested in and can dispatch them in several ways to different types of targets.
For example, you can have web server related messages sent to the webmaster, while sending all other critical messages to the network administrator.
Exclude filters allow you to filter out messages that are of no interest and can either be applied to some notifications targets (e.g. email and file ) or all notifications.
The filtering mechanism is so powerful that you can satisfy almost any scenario. Send event log messages by SMTP email or via syslog, write them to a database or text/html file, print them on a matrix printer or simply launch a custom process. All scenarios are determined by the filter rules you setup.
Additional event log monitoring features include filter thresholds which allow you to become notified when a certain number of events appear during a certain time interval (e.g. more than 10 login failures in 1 minute). Filter thresholds can also be used to ignore repetitive events when they reach a certain count.
The recurring event feature allows you to become notified when one or more events do not occur during a preset time period. For example, instead of getting emails when a process (e.g. backup) completed successfully, you will only get an email when the process didn't complete.
You can also impose day and time restrictions on filters and use summary notifications for emails or databases which sends you summary emails at certain times. Additionally, event log filters can also be set to expire at a given date/time.
Event Log Consolidation stores all or some event log entries in a central ODBC database (MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Access are currently supported). You can then search for events from the open-source EventSentry web reports or create custom reports. Reports can be printed through the web browser or exported to CSV files.
