syslog in windows

http://www.monitorware.com/en/topics/syslog/

Why do you need to monitor your Security event log?

A good article written by Adrian Grigorof

note - http://www.eventid.net/show.asp?DocId=33

Did you know

Computer systems tend to generate millions of events. Most of these events are unwanted or repetitive events which waste archive space and waste time when processing and monitoring Event/System logs. A good Event Manager will filter out rules for platform.

GFI Event Manager, SCOM are some event managers which do this out of box.

WatchMouse

Performance - Trusted To Monitor the websites.
Load Testing - How many visitors can a website handle.
Periodic Vulnerability Scanning - Saving servers safe from hacker attacks.
Website Performance Benchmarking - comparing websites.

For more information please click on the following link - http://www.watchmouse.com/en/

All in one - Server Monitoring, Application Monitoring and Capacity Planning tool

GOTO - http://www.uptimesoftware.com/itservicemonitoring.php

Enterprise-strength server monitoring and reporting seamlessly across Windows, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, Linux, Novell, VMware, and more
Easily Test and Implement 'up.time' with no consultants needed to deploy or maintain
Less Expensive than heavy, complex framework solutions. Get the depth of server monitoring you need at a fraction of the Framework price
The best GUI and Dashboards (like 'Resource Scan' to the left) in the business.
Dozens of monitors right out-of-the-box plus many more easy to add, free plug-in monitors

Always Be the First to Know - instantly figure out what is happening in your IT infrastructure with deep resource, process, and service metrics. Use capacity planning and trending to see when you'll run out of resources.
Quick and Easy Installation… Really - no expensive consulting or integration required as up.time plays nice will thousands of applications. Start server monitoring and reporting in less than 15 minutes, including the download time.
The Work Gets Done for You - automated report creation and distribution, automated IT service and monitored element discovery, automated virtual machine discovery, as well as automated recovery and restart actions. Proactive out-of-the-box and customizable alerting keeps you in charge.
Take the Guess Work out of Server Consolidation and Virtualization - use automated reports to easily identify all server consolidation potential candidates, then analyze, monitor, and report on all your virtual instances.
Get it done under Budget - Lower your Total Cost of Ownership by at least 35% compared to the heavy, complex system management frameworks (IBM, HP, CA, Microsoft, BMC).
Fanatical Support Experts - relentless perfectionists help you solve problems quickly. All future product upgrades and continuous three month feature packs are included FREE with support.

Dashboards and Scorecards

I found a good article by Wayne W. Eckerson on Best Pracices on deploying Dashboards and Scorecards.

Here is the link -
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=c2eacd44-f0b5-46b9-a91a-61acb3a5ec53&displayLang=en

Dashboard for sharepoint

This bundle gives you all you need to turn your collaborative portals into visually appealing dashboards and scorecards - quickly and easily. With powerful charts and an assortment of gauges and dials, you can dramatically visualize your KPIs and other key corporate data within your own portal, all without Visual Studio!

Dundas Chart for SharePoint - Dundas Chart for SharePoint gives you charting technology from the industry leader, to add highly customizable, stunning charts to your SharePoint portal.

Dundas Gauge for SharePoint - Now you can get Dashboards and Scorecard features in your reports by adding easy to interpret Gauges, Dials and Knobs and display data that simply can't be shown effectively in a chart.



for more information click on the following link

http://www.dundas.com/Technologies/SharePoint/DashBundle.aspx

ITIL Service Desk - ChangeGear by Sunview

ChangeGear Service Desk is a comprehensive solution that enables IT support staff to quickly and easily respond to customer requests. Designed using the ITIL best practices framework and Microsoft .NET platform, ChangeGear Service Desk tracking and an integrated architecture.With ChangeGear Service Desk, IT support staff can:Accelerate incident and problem resolutionAttain 360-degree visibility into service support processesGain ITIL compliance out-of-the-boxChangeGear Service Desk is comprised of a Self-Service Portal, Incident Management and Problem Management


for more information

Click on the following link

http://www.sunviewsoftware.com/products/servicedesk.aspx?gclid=CO78hoaMrJECFShsGgodUAIEfw

ESMGUY STRIKES BACK

I will start writing my post from Feb 4 2008.

-ESMGUY

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