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Syslog Watcher - Easy Way to Collect and Audit SYSLOG Messages

SnmpSoft Company is pleased to announce the Syslog Watcher and Vendor Pack. Vendor Pack it is add-on for our syslog server called Syslog Watcher.

Syslog Watcher is a functional and easy-to-use server for collecting syslog messages. SYSLOG is a standard of sending system messages through network. It is supported by almost all types of network equipment, many vendors and operational systems. It is very efficiently to collect and store messages from all over the network in one point to analyze, audit, research for a source of a problem and any other control of the system state.

Unfortunately Microsoft Windows does not contain built-in server to collect syslog messages; solutions of other companies are used for this. SnmpSoft Company solution is Syslog Watcher. It will help you solve the problem of receiving, storing and analyzing of messages from all over the network.

Having configured the device properly and having activated auto start of Syslog Watcher, you will always be well informed about important events in the devices life. For example, if this is supported by the device, of course, you will instantly get to know about any attempt of non-authorized access to the device, configuration changes, unplanned reloading, any system or program failures and etc.

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Even if you use any solution, collecting syslog messages, storing them and letting analyze them effectively – anyway, two main problems exist.

The first is that, although syslog messages format is standardized, often vendors deviate from the standard and change format. As a result of this, recognition of message parts gets more difficult. They can also add additional information that would better be identified and analyzed in the proper way.

The second problem is that messages are usually short and it is often quite difficult to understand what they mean, in other words, how to interpret them and how to respond to the received message.

To solve these two problems we developed a special add-on for our syslog server called Syslog Watcher Vendor Pack. Vendor Pack can be integrated into any edition of Syslog Watcher. It contains a knowledge base of syslog messages of various vendors, that is, it knows about vendor-specific formats and contains message patterns. When the add-on is activated this allows to analyze the received messages more fully and to get additional information from them.
Also there is a detailed explanation of the message meaning for almost every message that is in vendor pack database. Besides from explanation displaying Vendor Pack offers recommendations on how to react to the received messages, if they are necessary and applicable.

Thus, using Syslog Watcher with Vendor Pack you can effectively gather and analyze network events, also understand their meaning and react to them properly. For the moment Vendor Pack contains 8000+ messages, and the list of supported vendors will be expanded soon.

For more information about our software products visit SnmpSoft’s website: http://www.snmpsoft.com

About SnmpSoft Company

SnmpSoft Company founded in 2006. It is a young but fast growing software company. It specializes in software development for network specialists. The main product is Syslog Watcher – an easy-to-use and effective syslog server.