Corner Bowl Log Manager 9.0.13

Corner Bowl Log Manager 9.0.13 brings an effective solution to mornitoring network-wide Event Log, syslog and application log. It enables Systems Administrators to automate log monitoring, consolidation and archiving requirements set forth by management and regulatory agencies.Consolidate and archive logs to SQL Server, MySQL, a log appliance or a network location.

Monitor logs in real-time or schedule reports. For example, receive immediate notification when any user or computer attempts to logon to your network more than 3 times within 10 minutes.

Includes Security Event Log reports to aid in auditing requirements. For example, receive daily or weekly logon failure summary reports.Search your network for domain controllers, servers, database servers, or workstations and configure them all at once. Create configuration templates enabling you to quickly configure new servers or setup an Active Directory monitor so logs on new servers are automatically monitored, consolidated and included in weekly or daily reports.

Major Features:

1. Event Log Management
   • The Windows operating system and many 3rd party Windows Services and applications use the Windows Event Log system to log informational, warning and error information used by Systems Administrators to help identify application errors. Corner Bowl Log Manager monitors (real-time or scheduled), consolidates and archives Event Logs to SQL Server, MySQL or the file system.
2. Syslog Management
   • Corner Bowl Log Manager includes a self-contained syslog server that can be used to collect, monitor and consolidate syslog messages from both computers and devices such as network routers and firewalls.
3. Text Log Management
   • Corner Bowl Log Manager supports both delimited and non-delimited text log files. Delimited files follow a specific format enabling programmatic parsing over multiple lines. Many applications create log files using a date driven naming mechanism. Corner Bowl Log Manager enables you to monitor files within a directory that match user defined file name masks such as .txt and *.log. When a new file is detected, the service automatically starts monitoring the file contents.
4. Advanced Filtering
   • Powerful filtering searches through consolidated logs allowing you to pinpoint log entries of interest or remove noise. Both simple and complex regular expression filters are offered. Selectively flag and add notes to log entries of interest.
5. Compliance
   • Many regulatory agencies require organizations to archive critical logs for future reference. Corner Bowl Log Manager will archive your logs in their entirety or as a sub-set to a central SQL Server or MySQL database as well as to CSV, EVT, HTML, TXT, and XML files.
6. Alerts, Notifications and Actions
   • Corner Bowl Log Manager supports several different alerts and actions when key log entries are detected. Trigger actions such as sending a fully customizable email, exporting to a file, displaying a message box, playing a sound, writing key log entries to a user defined database table, forwarding key log entries to log consolidation hardware via syslog, displaying a system tray popup message or sending a SMS notification through an email-to-SMS gateway or service.
7. Report Generation
   • Generate reports that contain filtered log entries of from a set of computers. For example, receive a daily report that contains a list of all failed login attempts to your domain controllers for the last 24 hours. Report content is fully customizable through our HTML email templates. Run reports on-demand or schedule.
8. Network Event Viewer and Text Log Monitor Users
   • Currenlty licensed Network Event Viewer and Text Log Monitor customers can use their license keys to register CB Log Manager. At this time CB Log Manager will not convert or load your Network Event Viewer or Text Log Monitor configurations or data, however; you can run this software side-by-side Network Event Viewer and Text Log Monitor.
9. Architecture
   • Corner Bowl Log Manager consists of three major components:
   • The User Interface is used to configure log management, generate reports, review consolidated logs and watch logs in real-time.
   • The Windows Service monitors and parses log entries, fires actions, generates scheduled reports, and automatically starts to monitor newly discovered computers.
   • The Tray Icon fires user interface alerts such as message box, sound, and system tray popups.

Enhancements: Added Active Directory Event Log Explorer: The Navigation view now contains an Active Directory based Event Log Explorer.

Requirements:

1. Supported Operating Systems
   • Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Server 2003, or Windows 2000.
2. Supported CPUs
   • The software is compiled with the latest version of the .Net Framework which allows us to compile the program once for any CPU. This means Corner Bowl Log Manager can run natively on both 64-bit and 32-bit hardware.
3. Memory
   • 2 GBs of available memory, 4 GBs suggested for large networks.
4. .Net Framework 3.5
   • The installation detects if .Net Framework 3.5 is already installed. If not, the framework is automatically downloaded from Microsoft and then installed. Please note the framework takes a significant amount of time to install. Please be patient while the installation completes.
5. Domain Administrator Account
   • To access remote logs both the logged in user and the Windows Service must have domain administrator rights. The first time the application is run, you will be prompted to assign domain administrator credentials to the service.
6. Windows Management Instrumentation (client and server)
   • Event Logs are consolidated and managed using Microsoft's Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) API. WMI is preinstalled on all supported operating systems.