Windows Event Monitoring & Forwarding
When UNC (\\severname\sharename\path) was given in the file path (in your defined “Write to File” action) Winsyslog, Eventreporter and MonitorWare Agent didn’t work? Yes, UNC works for Winsyslog, Eventreporter and MonitorWare Agent, but due to Windows design you must meet some pre-requisites to enable them to actually work. They do NOT work in the default […]
When I start a MonitorWare Product, I get the following error: “FATAL error opening the MonitorWare/WinSyslog/EventReporter/MoniLog language file. Please repair this using the Monitorware/WinSyslog/EventReporter/MoniLog Installer” The reason for this error is that the language file got somehow deleted or renamed. This can occur with MonitorWare Agent, WinSyslog, EventReporter as well as MoniLog. To solve the […]
I entered my license information through the client interface but it still says that it is a “trial version”. How to solve this problem? Following are some of the reasons for your problem: If your license name does not have a space at the end, make sure that you dont put the space at the […]
To use a MySQL Database with WinSyslog, EventReporter or MonitorWare Agent, you need to install some components (If you haven’t) first. Go to https://www.mysql.com/downloads/index.html. If you don’t have any MySQL Server, download MySQL-3.23.5 for Windows for example (Or a newer version if there is one). Most important, you need to download an install the ODBC […]
All Cisco products we know support logging to a syslog host like WinSyslog. This article covers all devices that use IOS (e. g. routers and switches). Syslog logging needs both to be configured as well as turned on. To configure, you must be in enable mode (see your Cisco documentation on how to enter enable […]
What are the numeric values for event severity levels? The severity of an event describes the importance of an event. These severity levels are represented by numeric values. Those values are: Severity Numeric value SUCCESS 1 ERROR 2 WARNING 4 INFORMATION 8 AUDIT_SUCCESS 16 AUDIT_FAILURE 32
I know that the Windows event log size settings are not optimal. So how can I change them and what are better values? Indeed, the default settings are just 512 KB and overwrite after 7 days. While the 512 KB settings do not actually pose a problem the 7 day overwrite does. Effectively, this means […]
Many Adiscon products (e.g. WinSyslog and EventReporter) come with an online version checking feature. This feature is implemented via Microsoft’s XML parser. Unfortunately, we had to learn the the redistributable XML parser component does not properly setup on some machines. As far as we have found out, it does not install correctly if no Internet […]
Message: “Couldn’t read last record for Security log (state 87) – nLastRecord set to 0 to recover.” This actually is no error, but a status message. There can be three reasons for this message: This message occurs when by any chance the last entry in the event log gets deleted. By the network administrator or […]
When EventReporter is configured to send email message, several SMTP error codes might happen while connecting to the mail server. These are: Error Cause Suggested Action -1 EventReporter could not at all connect to the mail server. Check that the mail server’s IP address or host name is correctly configured. Check that the port used […]