First and foremost, users need to install the Windows Server Essentials Log Collector Package. For that, check out the steps to learn how to do it: In case, users need to reinstall Log Collector ...

If your company is lax about archival backups, consider my inspiration for writing this week's column: I recently assisted with a case that's been going on for two years. The case involves an ...

Syslog messages circulate around your network and provide valuable information for system monitoring. You don't have to pay anything for this information if you use a free Syslog server. The Syslog ...

All I want to do is move the location of the Application, Security and System logs on Server 2008 to a different location. However, no matter which location I choose, the System log fills up with the ...

If you’ve ever stared at a wall of server logs trying to find one useful line, you already know how painful it gets. You end up endlessly scrolling, dealing with timestamps that don’t line up, while ...

In this review, we compared three log managers: VMware’s Log Insight, Balabit’s Syslog-ng Professional Edition, and SpectorSoft’s SpectorSoft Server Manager. Each offers a way of gathering, compiling, ...