Text Log Monitor (TLM) provides Systems Administrators the ability to monitor and filter local or remote text log files as well as alert all in real-time. TLM also enables users to view, filter, and tail extremely large text files from within a Windows Graphical User Interface (GUI).

Filters can be applied in much the same way tools like Cygwin’s GREP utility provides. Both simple filters and complex Regular Expression filters are supported. Filtered results can be viewed or alerts can be configured to fire automatically when new messages are appended to log files. Files are monitored using operating system calls enabling the software to immediately notify Systems Administrators when specific messages are appended or when file contents change.

Text Log Monitor installs a Windows Service that enables automatic file monitoring and alerting. The Windows Service does not require system administrators to be logged into the system.

Actions include:

• Detailed email
• PDA friendly email
• Saving messages to SQL Server
• Syslogging
• Appending messages to a CSV or TXT file.

No longer do you need to install tools like Cygwin that are not designed around Windows Systems Administrators. With Text Log Monitor, you can load huge files into the GUI and page though each file in much the same fashion as Cygwin’s MORE and LESS utilities provide. When filters are applied, Cygwin’s GREP functionality is replaced enabling uses to easily parse text files from a Windows GUI program. And unlink GREP, filters can be saved for easy access next time they are needed. Lastly, when viewing the last page of log entries, TLM automatically tails the log file displaying contents as they are written to the file.

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Key Features

Architecture

TLM consists of two major components:

The User Interface. The user interface is used to configure text logs to monitor and view logs.

The Windows Service. The service monitors text logs files. Whenever a file is modified the changes are parsed and all assigned filters are executed, actions completed, and alerts fired.

System Requirements

.Net Framework 2.0

The installation detects if .Net Framework 2.0 is already installed. If not, the framework is automatically downloaded from Microsoft and then installed.

Domain administrator account credentials

To access remote logs from the user interface, your login must have domain administrator rights. When scheduling the service to monitor and filter remote logs, the service must be run with domain administrator rights. The first time the application is run, you will be prompted to assign domain administrator rights to the service.

Which License Do You Need?

TLM sells in three different flavors:

Desktop - This license allows you to run this software on Windows 2000 or Windows XP and retrieve logs from 20 computers.

Server - This license allows you to run this software on Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 and retrieve logs from 50 computers.

Unlimited - This license allows you to run this software on Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 and retrieve logs from an unlimited number of computers.

Each license comes with access to updates for 1 year. After that, you can purchase an upgrade license. An upgrade license provides you with access to updates for an additional more year.

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