Is Microsoft's Log Parser a Windows Syslog Agent?
Someone recently asked me if Microsoft’s Log Parser application could be used as a syslog agent. To be honest, I had not heard of the…
Someone recently asked me if Microsoft’s Log Parser application could be used as a syslog agent. To be honest, I had not heard of the…
How do you collect NetFlow events over the syslog protocol so you can analysis them with a tool like Log Insight? That is the question…
When architecting any syslog solution several things need to be taken into consideration. Outside of requirements, I would like to discuss some of the technical…
Many VMware products offer remote syslog functionality, but some do not include all the logs that you may care about. In addition, some VMware products…
Log Insight has always shipped with the General and vSphere content packs. Several enhancements have been made to these content pack in version 4.5. In…
From time to time, I hear about the desire to configure two separate Log Insight instances to forward to one another without creating a loop.…
Now that I have talked about the new forwarding feature in Log Insight 2.5, I would like to discuss why you should consider using it…
The Log Insight agent can be configured to monitor log files within specific directories. It is important to understand how and when the agent detects…
When the Log Insight Windows agent was released in version 2.0, the decision to use the agent was easy because Windows does not natively support…
One question I get over and over again is can you / how do you import existing logs into Log Insight? The common use-cases are:…