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LogCaster NTReal Time System Monitoring

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Customer Requirements

•Increasing NT security.•Increasing system availability.•Reducing HelpDesk response-time.•Reducing Network Load.•Reducing Total Cost of Ownership.•Allocating resources efficiently.

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Objective

•Gaining instant vision into NT networks.•Becoming aware of problems immediately.•Maximizing the availability of critical systems.

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•Taking corrective actions automatically.•Performance data-based asset management.•Cross Platform Event MiddleWare.

Objective

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Meeting the Needs

•Increasing NT security.•Real Time Notifications •100% Active Push Technology.•Alerting and paging.•Building consolidated audit trails.

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•Increasing system availability.-Service Watcher and Scheduled reboot.-TCP/IP Watcher.

•Reducing Network Load.-Event filtering.-Active Event Caching.

Meeting the Needs

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Meeting the Needs

•Reducing HelpDesk response-time.

•Real Time corrective actions and scripting.•Remote Shell.

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•Reducing Total Cost of Ownership.

•Catching Server problems early with Application and System log analysis.•Performance monitoring and alerting.•Performance based capacity planning.

Meeting the Needs

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•Allocating resources efficiently.•Identifying and reallocating idle resources instead of purchasing new hardware.

Meeting the Needs

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Our Strengths

Super Low Resource Utilization. Low Cost All-In-One Solution. Non Intrusive System Level Services. Expandable Modular Framework. LAN / WAN Support.

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Key Benefits

LC acts as a burglar alarm.LC keeps critical services running.LC can automates corrective actions.LC can watch TCP/IP devices.LC offers a wide variety of notification devices.LC provides consolidated event reports.

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LOGCASTER AGENT EVENT PROCESSES

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NT EVENT LOG Using Event Logs to monitor Windows NT

events

With Event Viewer, you can troubleshoot various

hardware and software problems. You can also use

Event Viewer to monitor Windows NT Server

security events, which are significant system or

program problems that users should be notified about.

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APPLICATIONS

SYSTEM FUNCTIONS

SECURITY

THE 3 BASIC MONITOR CONSIDERATIONS FOR NT ARE:

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NT EVENT LOG

APPLICATION

“The Eventlog service logs any significant system, security, and

application occurrences that require users to be notified. “

Microsoft

Application related events can be as simple as an event generated by your defragger identifying the files it just

addressed, or as critical as the unauthorized access attempt by an

employee to start or stop an application.

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NT EVENT LOG

SECURITY

“The Eventlog service logs any significant system, security, and

application occurrences that require users to be notified. “

Microsoft

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NT EVENT LOG

SECURITY

“The Eventlog service logs any significant system, security, and

application occurrences that require users to be notified. “

Microsoft

Inconsequential System related events can be configured to be ignored while

critical events generate alarms.

SYSTEMS

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SYSTEMS

APPLICATION

NT EVENT LOG LOGCASTER AGENT EVENT PROCESSESSECURITY

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APPLICATION

SYSTEMS

SECURITY

NT EVENT LOG

LOGCASTER FILTER

LOGCASTER AGENT EVENT PROCESSES

USER DEFINED FILTER

USER DEFINED FILTERUSER DEFINED FILTER

USER DEFINED FILTER

USER DEFINED FILTER

Let’s talk about the LogCaster

Filter processes.

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LOGCASTER FILTER

USER DEFINED FILTER

USER DEFINED FILTERUSER DEFINED FILTER

USER DEFINED FILTER

USER DEFINED FILTER

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LOGCASTER FILTER

USER DEFINED FILTER

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LOGCASTER FILTER

USER DEFINED FILTER

The user defined filter description is entered

here.

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The Event Viewer Detail Window will display this data. The user can select the criteria for an alarm.

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Advanced Filtering Options allow the user

more detailed configuration of his new

filter.

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All of the user’s filters are described

here.

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APPLICATION

SYSTEMS

SECURITY

NT EVENT LOG

LOGCASTER FILTER

USER DEFINED FILTER

USER DEFINED FILTERUSER DEFINED FILTER

USER DEFINED FILTER

USER DEFINED FILTER

DEFAULT

NETWORK

TRASH

LOGCASTER AGENT EVENT PROCESSES

Process ID

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Information

al Print

Messages

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APPLICATION

SYSTEMS

SECURITY

NT EVENT LOG

LOGCASTER FILTER

USER DEFINED FILTER

USER DEFINED FILTERUSER DEFINED FILTER

USER DEFINED FILTER

USER DEFINED FILTER

DEFAULT

NETWORK

TRASH

LOGCASTER AGENT EVENT PROCESSES

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LOGCASTER EVENT DISPATCHER

SERVER

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LOGCASTER EVENT DISPATCHER SERVER

EVENT MATCHING

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