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By Rainer Gerhards Microsoft provides integration of 32bit software into the 64 bit world. They have worked quite hard to make any differences invisible to the user and even the programmer. However, there are some subtleties that cannot be totally hidden. One of them can be experienced in the ODBC subsystem. There are actually two […]

Article created by Rainer Gerhards Article last updated by Florian Riedl Monitoring Windows is important even for small environments. Automatically monitored, critical failures can often be avoided. But how to monitor a system without too much effort? The basic idea behind a successful monitoring and alerting system is to centralize all system events at a […]

Created by Michael Meckelein. This article describes how to parse log message via “Post-Process”. It illustrates the logic behind Post-Process action. Get relevant information from logs Log files contain a lot of information. In most cases only a small part of the log message is of actual interest. Extracting relevant information is often difficulty. Due […]

What are indexes? An index Is sorted by key values, (that need not be the same as those of the table) Is small and has just a few columns of the table. Refers for a key value to the right block within the table. Speeds up reading a row, when you know the right search […]

Created by Hamid Ali Raja SystemID It is a user-configurable numerical value that has been added for grouping a group of systems and improves filtering. It is just like a numerical code to which you can assign a value and query it afterwards. CustomerID It is similar to SystemID. It depends on user that how […]

By Rainer Gerhards The obvious answer is that low free space means upcoming problems, like the inability to receive mail (for mail servers) or the inability to store new files (for file servers). There are numerous obvious reasons why free space is an operations management priority. But there are also less obvious reasons: disk space […]

Do you want to receive syslog in a Windows environment? Take a look at WinSyslog! Receive, process and store your syslog data from routers, firewalls or linux/unix servers with this easy to configure application in your Windows environment. Troubleshoot network problems or be alerted, all quickly and easily. Take a Quick Tour to WinSyslog to […]

Created by Wajih-ur-Rehman. Overview This paper explains you the Rule Engine that is employed in some of the MonitorWare Line of Products namely MonitorWare Agent, WinSyslog and Event Reporter 6.0 (and higher) What is Rule Engine Rule Engine is actually an engine present in the above mentioned MonitorWare Line of Products using which you can […]

Created by Wajih-ur-Rehman. Overview This paper is not an in depth paper about syslog. It simply gives you an overview and a broader picture about the Syslog Protocol and its architecture. If you are interested in in-depth details about Syslog, I would strongly suggest you to go through RFC: 3164.

By Rainer Gerhards Abstract This paper describes the IIS workflow (aka “order of operations”) as far as the author thinks it is. I have tried hard to make the information as complete and accurate as possible, but obviously it might be wrong as I haven’t coded IIS. All information in this paper is taken from […]