Author : adisconteam

This article will guide you in how to monitor a software raid on Windows 2003 by filtering specific events by using the EventLog Monitor in MonitorWare Agent. This is also possible with EventReporter, however this article will target the more powerful MonitorWare Agent. You can download a preconfigured configuration from here, which you can import […]

This article will help you to setup an environment to log and store Windows Events at a central place using EventReporter, and view and search them using Adiscon LogAnalyzer. In addition, we show, how a report of the events from the last 24 hours will be created. You can download a preconfigured configuration from this […]

Microsoft provides integration of 32bit software into the 64 bit world. They have worked quite hard to make any differences invisible to the user and even the programmer. However, there are some subtleties that cannot be totally hidden. One of them can be experienced in the ODBC subsystem. There are actually two ODBC subsystems in […]

SystemID It is a user-configurable numerical value that has been added for grouping a group of systems and improves filtering. It is just like a numerical code to which you can assign a value and query it afterwards. CustomerID It is similar to SystemID. It depends on user that how he uses these. Let us […]

1. Overview This article gives an overview of MonitorWare Line of Products and provides a guideline to select the right product. This article discusses EventReporter, MonitorWare Agent, WinSyslog, MonitorWare Console, Monilog MonitorWare Agent, WinSyslog and EventReporter work on common concepts but target different needs. They also come in different editions and versions. Click on MonitorWare […]

Windows Event Log data can securely be forwarded to a UNIX/Linux based syslogd via stunnel. This article describes why and how this can be done. It is a mini-howto that primarily focusses on the Windows side because there are many good descriptions for the UNIX/Linux side. The free stunnel project provides a way to use ssl […]

Unicode is a standard to encode all of the world’s languages correctly on computers. In this article, Rainer Gerhards explains what Unicode is and why Adiscon bases all of its products on the Unicode standard. What is Unicode? It is an international standard. Its goal is to resolve ambiguities that traditionally arise when displaying complex […]

NetApp devices provide diagnostic information via an Windows Event Log like interface. This enables their messages to be browsed by Windows Event viewer and and be automatically processed by tools like EventReporter and MonitorWare Agent. It goes without saying that there are ample benefits from this capability. For example, instant alerting can be enabled by […]