Windows Server Monitoring and Event Log Management Solutions
March 1, 2011 - Volume 6, Number 3 |
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System Monitoring Sale - Extended Through March! February Curiosity Poll Results -Pad Tab Net Reader March Curiosity Poll - Websites Websites Everywhere The "ELM 411" - Quick Search Event Views 100%
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For over15 years, TNT Software has developed centralized Windows event log management solutions for companies seeking more system visibility, efficiency, and compliance support.
ELM Enterprise Manager's real-time server monitoring, alerting and reporting provides System Administrators the information they need to make informed decisions and become more proactive with enterprise systems management.
System Monitoring Sale - Extended Through March!
By popular demand, TNT Software has extended the System Monitoring Sale, offering ELM Enterprise Manager System Licenses for the price of Log Licenses through the end of March! Many have already taken advantage of this offer and many more still can!
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Add more monitoring to your servers for less! This sale represents a 24% savings and can be as much as $100 off per server!
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Again, looking back on both the holiday season and the CES show, and even in the news daily, tablets are abuzz. Record iPad sales and an awaited Microsoft response got us to thinking which kind of device our readers would rather have to "play" with.
As of the publishing of this newsletter, here's what respondents had to say.
Lookout Apple, here comes Android (as if they didn't already know that). Aside from the obvious popularity and first to market advantage the iPad enjoyed, tablets based on Google's Android are definitely making a stronghold in the tech audience. What about Netbooks? Eh, just another PC by the looks of things. It will be very interesting to see how a "WinPad" will stack up with these competitors a year (or so???) from now...
Officially released on May 16, 2007, ELM Enterprise Manager 5.0, ELM Log Manager 5.0, ELM Performance Manager 5.0 and ELM Event Log Monitor 5.0 have supported hundreds of clients who manage thousands of systems worldwide. Product enhancements and upgrades have provided these users great value and most have already migrated to either ELM 5.5 or ELM 6.0.
As a result, we are announcing the termination of commercial and technical support of all four ELM version 5.0 products effective May 31, 2011 in accordance with our product lifecycle policy.
An upgrade license is available free of charge for all users with a current Support and Maintenance Agreement.
The diagram below demonstrates the upgrade path from the individual ELM 5.0 products to the corresponding licenses in ELM Enterprise Manager 6.0. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our Sales or Support departments.
Companies, Organizations, Governments, Individuals - seems everyone's got one. But we're curious how you're hosting yours. In-house? At a hosting company? What kind of plan seems to work for you?
In-house: you have your own server in the company running IIS or a flavor of Linux that you maintain.
Shared Hosting: These are the typical $5-10 a month hosting services that cover the basics.
Virtual Dedicated Hosting: A virtual machine running on a hosting company's server. Typically starting around $30-40 a month.
Dedicated Hosting: A hosting company has a physical server in their rack, dedicated just to you. Typically much more expensive.
We don't have a website: What? You're joking right?
How many times have you been reading through a long web page and found it too long to find what you're looking for? A simple CTRL-F pops up a search box, you plug in your terms and you are off and running. Same thing applies to a long document, PDF, a spreadsheet, you name it.
So now you find yourself looking at an Event View in the ELM console and a certain event catches your eye. You could just continue to scroll through the view and keep an eye out for the next event, and the next, but if you have a lot of events in the view (the default is 5,000) this could take quite a while and you are prone to miss one or more.
You could create a new Event View and Filter to narrow down to just this event in the View, but that takes a little effort or can clutter up your Console with a bunch of extra, rarely used Event Views.
You could modify the filter for the View and narrow down to just this event occurrence, but you need to remember to remove your filter changes after you're done. Something that is often easy to overlook.
Another great option, too often unnoticed, is to search for the event occurrence within that View by using the "Find" option - just like you would with a web browser or Word document.
First thing to be aware of is that the CTRL-F keyboard shortcut will not popup a "Find" dialog. In ELM you will right click in the Event View, slide down to All Tasks and then click the Find... option.
Now you'll see the familiar "Find" popup. When you enter in your search query and click Find Next, the events will be highlighted in gray in the View behind the popup "Find" box and the View will automatically scroll as you move to the next occurrences.
The "Find" tool will look for your search terms in all of the column fields present in the View. This is very handy when it comes to something in the event message text that you cannot easily narrow down by performing a sort by column.
We hope that you found this article useful and wish you continued success with your ELM deployment!
NOTE: All ELM 411 articles are written based on ELM Enterprise Manager Version 6.0 and instructions may not be accurate for previous ELM Versions. If you would like assistance upgrading to ELM 6.0 so you can use these tips - please contact support@tntsoftware.com.
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