What We Need To Know About The Windows Event Log Monitor?

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The Windows Event Log monitor generates event reports on every system based and web activity. These reports help a user in analyzing the operations, understanding system errors and securing the entire system. For using the event logs a user would have to configure it in his computer. After this, he can view event reports i.e. error, warning, or information, audit, forwarded events and domain controllers.

How to activate and view event logs?

For viewing the event logs a user would have to activate it first in his system. Go to start, select Control Panel then click on the Performance and Maintenance command. Select Administrative tools and click the MMC inclusive of Event Viewer snap-in. Click Event Viewer for viewing the Event Viewer Window.

How to supervise the event logs?

Place the cursor on start and select Control Panel. Select Performance and Maintenance, then Administrative Tools and Computer Management/ MMC inclusive of Event Viewer snap-in. Click the expand Event Viewer option from Console Tree. Now search the logs for viewing the information. View the events from details pane. Copy the ...
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What all information does the event logs provide?

Understanding an event log is not at all difficult. It categorizes information of an event into Date, Time, User, Computer, Event ID, Source, Type and Category. Here Date means the date of the event, Time means the actual time of the event, User is User of the system, Computer means Computer name, Event ID is the Even type, Source can be the cause of an event, Type here means the error type i.e. Success Audit, or Failure, etc. and category is the segregation of the event source.

How to find the Event Logs?

Place the cursor on start and select Control Panel. Select Performance and Maintenance, then Administrative Tools and Computer Management/ MMC inclusive of Event Viewer snap-in. Click the expand Event Viewer option from Console Tree. Now search the logs for viewing the information. Search the log in find detail box and click next.

How to filter the log events?

Place the cursor on start and select Control Panel. Select Performance and Maintenance, then Administrative Tools and Computer Management/ MMC inclusive of Event Viewer snap-in. Click the expand Event Viewer option from Console Tree. Then click on the Filter Tab option in View menu.

How to fix the event log size?

Place the cursor on start and select Control Panel. Select Performance and Maintenance, then Administrative Tools and Computer Management/ MMC inclusive of Event Viewer snap-in. Click the expand Event Viewer option from Console Tree. Here, a user can set the log size in Maximum Log Size option.

A user would have to enter a different command for every change in event log. But an easy way to manage Windows Event Log monitor is Lepide Event Log Manager. This tool is a centralized platform for managing and monitoring the event logs. Further to this, it helps in managing the system based and web based events.

The Author has published articles on many technologies. In this article the author has mentioned about the basic features of Windows Event Log Monitor. He has mentioned about the steps to activate, filter, manage, and view the event logs. In an aggregate, this article is a tutorial for the monitoring event logs process.