network monitoring software

GFI EventsManager for Windows Workstations, 1000-2999 nodes, 2 Years Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) The enormous volume of system events generated daily is a valuable source of information for organizations. It will help you to meet legal and compliance obligations and to address IT security risks. Growing threats to business continuity call for an approach that includes real-time monitoring of the network. You need the ability to analyze and report event data to meet stringent and ever more demanding legal and compliance obligations.

This is, however, an overwhelming task without the proper tools. GFI EventsManager™ has thousands of customers for whom we ease the burden and simplifying the complexity of events management, archiving and reporting, and, we're competitively priced for your market.

GFI EventsManager is the solution you need to meet legal and regulatory compliance such as SOX, PCI DSS, and HIPAA. This award-winning software supports a wide range of event types such as W3C, Windows events, Syslog and in the latest version, SNMP traps generated by devices such as firewalls, routers and sensors as well as by custom devices.

Providing support for devices from the top 20 manufacturers as well as for custom devices, GFI EventsManager monitors an extended range of hardware products, reports on the health and operational status of each one and collects the information you need to know.

Real-time alerts, SNMPv2 traps alerting Included
The latest build of GFI EventsManager™ has improved alert level for key events or intrusions that are detected on the network. GFI EventsManager allows you to trigger actions such as scripts or to send an alert to one or more people by email, network messages, SMS notifications sent through an email-to-SMS gateway or service and now includes SNMPv2 traps. The generation of SNMP alerts will also allow administrators to integrate GFI EventsManager with pre-existing or generic monitoring mechanisms.

Installation and Usability
GFI EventsManager has been optimized to provide users with an improved installation process. Some of the changes include optimization of various run parts of the product, updated installation documentation, new quick start guides to help you add event sources, create rules and work with database operations faster and more efficiently as well as the ability to download and install the ReportPack™ from the report page. The ReportPack also contains reports specific to Payment Cards Industry (PCI) Standard.

Centralized Event Logging
Event logs are constantly and automatically generated by a user or by an automatic or background process. Logs are often stored in disparate locations. GFI EventsManager stores all captured event logs into one SQL database that may even reside remotely. Through GFI EventsManager you can configure scheduled backups of your event logs.

Analysis of Event Logs including SNMP Traps, Windows Event logs, W3C logs and Syslog
As a network administrator, you have experienced the cryptic and voluminous logs that make log analysis a daunting process. GFI EventsManager is a log processing solution that provides network-wide control and management of Windows event logs, W3C logs, and Syslog events generated by your network sources. GFI EventsManager now supports Simple Network Management Protocol version 3 which is the language spoken by low level devices such as routers, sensors, firewalls, etc. Through SNMP users can now monitor a whole range of hardware devices on their infrastructure and gain the ability to report on the health and operational status of each device.

Certified for Windows Server 2008; Supports Vista
GFI EventsManager has achieved ‘Certified for Windows Server 2008’ status and can be installed on, and collect events from Windows Vista and Windows 2008. Although these new platforms use a different log format, GFI EventsManager presents events from various operating systems in the same manner, thus allowing the user to see a common structure, regardless of the platform being monitored. GFI EventsManager also supports Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003.

Deeper Granular Control of Events
GFI EventsManager helps you monitor a wider range of systems and devices through the centralized logging and analysis of various log types including Windows events, Syslog, W3C and now SNMP traps that are generated by network resources. Administrators can gather information from Windows machines and third-party devices at a greater level of granularity and process information at extended tags level, basing the decision of what to do with that information on the spot, without further information management.

Support for New Devices
Managing SNMP Trap for myriad devices requires the ability to understand the language each manufacturer uses to define events. These definitions and the device information are contained in Management Information Base (MIB) definition files, provided by the manufacturers. GFI EventsManager ships with MIB definitions for the following vendors: Cisco, 3Com, IBM, HP, Check Point, Alcatel, Dell, Netgear, SonicWall, Juniper Networks, Arbor Networks, Oracle, Symantec, Allied Telesis and others. GFI EventsManager is capable of importing the MIB files of new devices as soon as they become available.

SQL Server Auditing
GFI EventsManager now supports SQL server auditing for all commercial and free versions of SQL Server including 2000, 2005, 2008, MSDE and SQL Express. Auditing allows the user to track and report on SQL server activity such as: Running of SQL statements, altering DB tables, attempts to access data without necessary privileges, etc. This can ensure data in SQL servers is authentic and thus reliable.

Translates Cryptic Windows Events
Cryptic logs make log analysis a painful and lengthy process. GFI EventsManager translates those event descriptions to clear, concise explanations and suggestions for action.

High Performance Scanning Engine
GFI EventsManager incorporates a totally redesigned event scanning engine that is fine tuned for maximum scanning performance. Tests demonstrate that our engine is able to scan and collect up to 6 million events per hour. Its plug-in based methodology allows additional features and modules to be integrated without interfering with existing code.

Collect Events Data Distributed Over a WAN into One Central Database
You can collect events data from GFI EventsManager installations on multiple sites and locations across your network into one central database using the Database Operations functionality. This enables you to easily monitor thousands of workstations and servers across the network without impacting bandwidth and storage use. It integrates and centralizes events collected and processed and allows you to backup and restore events on demand. Through database operations you can manage the size of the database – without the need for manual intervention – not only by centralization but by also being able to export events and back them up as needed.

Rule-based Event Log Management
GFI EventsManager ships with a pre-configured set of log processing rules that allow you to filter and classify events that satisfy particular conditions. You can either run these default rules without performing any configuration, or you can choose to customize these rules and create tailored ones that suite your network infrastructure.

Advanced Event Filtering Features
GFI EventsManager’s powerful filtering sifts through recorded event logs allowing you to browse without deleting any records from your database backend. You may also selectively highlight specific events using a color or the integrated event finder tool.