thanks guys, this is very helpful <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Daniel Wittenberg <<a href="mailto:daniel.wittenberg.r0ko@statefarm.com">daniel.wittenberg.r0ko@statefarm.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Also look at check_logfiles if you need something a little more flexible, both are great. Dan <div><div></div><div class="h5"> -----Original Message----- From: C. Bensend [mailto:<a href="mailto:benny@bennyvision.com">benny@bennyvision.com</a>] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 8:40 AM To: <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring Windows 2008 event log? > Anybody know a good way to monitor Windows 2008 event logs? > > Steve Shipway's beta NagEventLog for win2k8 to run on my server > > <a href="http://www.steveshipway.org/software/nagevlog-setup-1.9.2.exe" target="_blank">http://www.steveshipway.org/software/nagevlog-setup-1.9.2.exe</a> > > Any ideas would be most appreciated I found NagEventLog to be unreliable, and Steve stopped answering my questions. NSClient++ is very reliable, and I haven't looked back. Benny -- "Hairy ape nads." -- Colleen, playing Neverwinter Nights ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </div></div></blockquote></div>