About Network Event Viewer
Network Event Viewer (NEV) is a powerful tool that enables systems administrators to centrally manage, consolidate, view, sort, search, and monitor Windows Event Logs.
NEV automatically enumerates available networks and allows you to select the machines that you want to download the event logs from (admin access required). The downloaded logs are saved locally for later review. System administrators can manually download files, or configure the service to download and optionally clear the logs at a specific time or interval enabling you to have the latest logs at your disposal.
Filters can be created enabling the service to automatically email important entries to the system administrator. The service can send a PDA friendly message or a detailed message that includes the entries of interest. The service can also append the filtered results to a file.
The viewer enables you to view the logs individually or in a merged report view. You can filter, search and sort multiple logs simultaneously.
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Architecture
NEV consists of three major components:
The viewer or user interface. The user interface is used to manually download logs, view logs, and configure the Windows Service for scheduled downloads and alerting.
The Windows Service. The service downloads logs per schedules you define. Once the logs are downloaded, any assigned filters are executed and alerts fired.
The Tray Icon. The tray icon changes color depending on the notification status. When the service or viewer downloads logs, any assigned filters are executed. If entries match the filter criteria, the entries are saved to a file. The tray icon detects when this file has been updated and changes its color to red. Lastly, the tray icon pops up a balloon window stating entries have been downloaded for your review. Once the notification entries have been viewed, the tray icon changes its color back to black.
Key Features
- Quickly download and view logs by navigating to a computer and selecting one of the automatically discovered logs
- Select multiple computers and logs for immediate download and viewing
- Schedule log downloads from once a minute to once a week
- Supports multi-threaded downloading improving performace dramatically
- Specify complex filters & match criteria
- Raise custom detailed and PDA friendly email alerts
- Clear remote logs after entries are downloaded
- View, filter, merge and sort log data
- Group entries by Host, Log, Time, Source, Category, Event ID, and User
- View entry data in hex, ASCII, or Unicode format
- Export logs to CSV format
- Automatically prepend, backup, or overwrite previously downloaded logs
- Limit downloaded log files to a specific size
- Includes tray icon status
- Supports SMTP authentication
- Single installation monitors entire network
- No installation requirements on managed computers
Which License Do You Need?
Network Event Viewer sells in three different flavors:
Desktop - This license allows you to run this software on Windows 2000 or Windows XP and retrieve logs from 20 computers.
Server - This license allows you to run this software on Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 and retrieve logs from 50 computers.
Unlimited - This license allows you to run this software on Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 and retrieve logs from an unlimited number of computers.
Each license comes with access to updates for 1 year. After that, you can purchase an upgrade license. An upgrade license provides you with access to updates for 1 more year.
