Starting with EventReporter 8.3 and MonitorWare Agent 4.3 two different event log monitor services are provided. They are called “Event Log Monitor” (V1) and “Event Log Monitor V2”. In short, the V2 version is recommended for Windows Vista (and above, e.g. Longhorn Server) while the other version is for previous releases of Windows (NT, 2000, […]

Windows Vista available since early 2007. Due to the changes Microsoft introduced with Vista, the procedure for monitoring event logs with the non-Vista event log monitor has changed.  Adiscon introduced the native Vista EventLog Monitor V2 which requires no specific prerequisites. Some customers still prefer to use the previous EventLog Monitor. We recommend against this. […]

I am using MonitorWare Agent 4.x / EventReporter 8.x / WinSyslog 7.x What are the settings that I would have to make such that the log file is generated in a format that is acceptable to Monilog? There are a few things that have to be set in order to generate a log file that […]

I have got a second sound card on my machine, how can I use it with the Play Sound Action? PlaySounds action plays a sound on the local machine. It is possible to play wave files and some other “system” supported soundfiles. This does “NOT” include mp3 files. As MonitorWare Agent is usually running “as […]

Records are not displayed on the web when I use MySQL ? Records aren’t displayed on the web when I use MySQL. The data isn’t retrieved even though the database is being populated and logs are being generated. Note that MySQL under Linux requires “case sensitive” in the most cases. MySQL database tables and, field […]

Can you give me step by step guidelines for viewing Syslog Messages on Web? Here is the step by step procedure for configuring Online Web interface for viewing Syslog Messages. First, make sure that IIS is installed and running. Then follow these steps: 1. Download the zip file from one of the following links depending […]

Configuration settings are totally different between version 5.x and 8.x The EventReporter configuration program can perform this upgrade automatically. To do so, be sure to start the EventReporter configuration program before starting the service. 1. Once you have started the new EventReporter Client, it will popup with this window if a EventReporter 5.x installation was […]

How can I migrate the rules that I have defined in EventReporter to MonitorWare Agent? This FAQ is only applicable to those who are using EventReporter 6.x and MonitorWare Agent 1.2 or higher. Follow the steps below: Click on Start and go to run. Type regedit. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adiscon\EventReporter\RuleSets Export the above mentioned key and […]

I have EventReporters running on various Windows Machines/Servers. I want to forward all the Windows Event Log messages to the central Server. What configurations should i make? For all the Window machines, which are forwarding the data to the central server, following should be the configurations for EventReporters running on them: Right click on “Services” […]