Using Windows Event Logs with phpLogCon
phpLogCon provides a message parser that understand Windows Event Log entries
in Adiscon common format. With that parser, all Windows event log properties can be
easily accessed, displayed and searched for.
How to get hold of the Windows Event Log Data
phpLogCon does not (yet) provide a data source driver to natively pull the log entries
from the Windows event logs. So it needs to be delivered to it. This can be done with
Adiscon's EventReporter or
MonitorWare Agent software. These Agents are
excuted either on each Windows machine (or a single machine doing remote monitoring)
and the events extracted are written to phpLogCon's datasource (either a file or
database). Depending on your network setup, you may have some intermediate systems,
in which case the actual write to the data source is done by something like
WinSyslog or rsyslog.
Once the data is inside the data source, the event log subparser does the rest. Together
with proper view defininitions, it provides a native-like view and search capability of
that data. Please note that Windows Event Log Fields can also be used as sources for
drawing graphics.
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