Keeping the Active Directory up and running is the first and foremost measure to maintain a healthy network. There are hundreds and thousands of events occurring within the Directory in seconds in a large network. A complete track needs to be maintained to ensure complete vigilance. An event is any significant occurrence in the system or in a program that requires users to be notified, or an entry added to a log. Event logs provide this historical information that can help you track down system and security problems. All Windows Events are normally classified under Application logs, security logs and system logs.

Type of events:

1.Information: This illustrates the successful operation of any task, such as an application, driver, or service.

2.Warning: Any event that may not be significant but may indicate the possible occurrence of a future problem.

3.Error: An event that describes a significant problem, such as the failure of a critical task. Error events may involve data loss or loss of functionality.

4.Success Audit (Security log): An event that describes the successful completion of an audited security event.

5.Failure Audit (Security log): It appears when an audited security event was not successfully completed.

Windows security activity is scattered among all computers in the domain, deployments of event log analyzer reaps more value to your inputs. Through event tracking, you can monitor all workstations, member, servers and domain controllers in a network, the product can form a comprehensive security picture. Event log tracking normally recognizes specific scenarios, including:

1.Failed logons

2.Account lockouts

3.After-hours account creation and group-membership changes

4.After-hours logons to high-security systems

5.Entry to user workstations through network logons

6.Audit-policy changes

7.Cleared security logs

8.Successful or failed file access (including access to specific filenames).

An event can be interpreted in a variety of ways, based on circumstances. Therefore, when Event Managers categorizes an event, the product includes a description that specifically explains the categorization decision. You can avail information regarding the event and also get alerts for listed events. This readily reduces the risk of any unwanted event within your network. Get rid of intruders to ensure security and compliance related activities.

Administrators can use enhanced event log analyzer to perform regular analysis of all events. To ensure a proper balance between resource consumption and timely alerts, administrators can specify a different collection frequency for each computer. You can send notifications for any highlighted event noted in the network. Windows event log viewer generally stops logging new events or overwrites when the log reaches a size of from approximately 200 megabytes (MB) to 600 MB. You can’t control that but with an event log manager, you can customize your log data and even receive email copies of your logs right into your inbox.

Lepide Event Log Manager is specially designed for event tracking and maintaining compliance. It ensures complete vigilance over the network with the help of filters, detailed reports, automatic alerts, time and query based results and online/offline tracking system. You can even use the results for internal and external audit reports. Lepide Event Log Manager helps to stay compliant with these data security regulations including HIPAA, GLBA, SOX and PCI. Evaluate the software first with a fully efficient trial version for 7 days serving one computer.