Most all of the suggestions seemed to be items that require connecting to each server from a centralized location. Bob Free mentioned syslog. This may be a good solution for you. Set up a syslog daemon (Either Kiwi or some other freeware version) somewhere and then use a perl script or find some other freeware for scanning event logs and sending out syslog messages and then go with that. Then you will look at that one place and have everything.
Alternatively some fairly cheap monitoring software I tend to recommend to people is called HostMon and is from www.ks-soft.com. There is quite a bit of stuff you can do from it for a relatively (in the world of monitoring apps) cheap price. joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 10:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] event logs Hi, i'm one admin in charge of about 30 servers(ad,exchange,sql,etc), does anyone know of a good cheap(free) way to monitor eventlogs without having to term or connect to each server? i was thinking of a perl script maybe via ms sql or mysql to send event errors or warnings to a centralized db or file. i find i spend about an hour or more of my morning monitoring and checking logs and i thought i'd use a pc to actually help me and do what it was meant to do- boring tedious tasks. how do you guys do it on this list? Thanks List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
