Log Insight Agent 4.5: Enhanced Silent Install Options
Since the Log Insight Agent was introduced, it has supported silent installation options to assist in automated deployments. The silent installation options were primarily focused…
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Log Insight Agent: Automating Installation with PowerShell
Ever wonder how you could automate the installation of the Log Insight Agent without a configuration management tool like SCCM, Puppet, or Salt? In this…
Log Insight Agent and SSL Parameters
Log Insight 4.0 changed the default option of “ssl” from off to on as I covered in this post. Using encryption by default is a…
Log Insight Agent : Excluding Events with Blacklist
As you probably know, the Log Insight agent allows you to explicitly include or exclude: filelog: log files within a directory winlog: Windows event viewer…
Log Insight Agent: Static Fields
Back in the early Log Insight days, I wrote about the types of fields in Log Insight and which static fields were provided automatically (more…
VMware Products with the Log Insight Agent
I recently got back from VMworld US 2016 and one of the top asked questions was: Which VMware products come pre-installed with the Log Insight agent?…
Log Insight Agents: Client-side versus Server-side Configuration
I have received some questions around agent configuration that I wanted to clear up. Read on to learn more!
12 Reasons Why You Should Use Log Insight Agent Parsers
I have spent the last three weeks talking about the new agent parsing feature in Log Insight 3.0. I wanted to wrap-up by discussing why…
Log Insight Agent: Text vs. Glob vs. Regex
Recently someone reached out to me with an issue where the Log Insight agent was not collecting files that it should. I quickly uncovered the…
Log Insight Agent: Unavailable Remote Destination
The Log Insight agent functions similar to a syslog agent though is much more powerful. One question I often get asked is what happens if…