Event Log Archiving |
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| The Windows Event log is stored locally on each computer
and is therefore no consolidated source of status information.
Windows itself has no method of replicating or sychronizing
this information to a single, centrally available audit
source. |
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 Database
storage
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| MonitorMagic includes a powerful event log archiver,
which visits your computers at a scheduled time, for
example during the night, grabs all event logs and
stores them into a central database. This database
can be either Microsoft® Access, SQL Server or
the MSDE. |
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Simple
and automatic configuration
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| Each MonitorMagic agent can be connected to a database,
which can either be a new database or an existing database
used by another agent. MonitorMagic can create a new
Access database file automatically or, when using SQL
Server, create all appropriate tables and indices on
a specific SQL Server. |
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Duplicate
checking - Reduced database space
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| The architecture for retrieving event logs is built
to minimize server load, network traffic and database
space. Therefore, MonitorMagic will first build up
its own event log cache and when storing the event
log data into a database, the descriptions will be
checked for duplicates. Since the description of events
can be long strings, these will consume lots of database
space. |
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Data
caching - Archive integrity
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| When retrieving event logs, MonitorMagic always creates
cache files on the local computer to ensure optimum
data integrity. When for instance the database connection
fails due to a network outage or database failure,
MonitorMagic will keep trying to connect to the database
on regular intervals to store the cached data. This
way, no event data will be lost during the archive
process |
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Event
Log Reporting
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 No
additional software needed; no
need to install Crystal Reports |
Dynamic
reporting system; automatically
suits your network
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Company-tailored
report templates
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Automatic
report generation and distribution
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Sample
HTML reports
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| Report 1: All
systems error events |
| Report 2: All
systems overview per computer |
| Report 3: All
systems overview per resource |
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