GFI EventsManager 8 review - Work smart not hard!

They say that work is for tractors and computers and the latest version of EventsManager seems designed to do the work and some thinking too. Let's go through the features of the latest monitoring software from GFI and understand what they really mean in a sentence.

1. Centralized event logging - Keep all the logs together, and have the ability to see the "whole picture"
2. Analysis of event logs including SNMP Traps, Windows Event logs, W3C logs and Syslog - Add more devices to your monitoring capabilities: printers, routers, switches, firewalls, web servers and more
3. Certified for Windows Server 2008; Supports Vista - These operating systems use a new event log programming interface and not many logging tools are able to process them properly
4. Deeper granular control of events - Have specific rules for specific events as opposed to treating all with some generic rules.
5. Support for new Devices - Compared to version 7, now SNMP traps and SQL server logs are supported
6. SQL Server Auditing - Monitors SQL activity such as new table creation
7. Translates" cryptic windows events - For some events, it provides a plain, "English" translation of the event description
8. High performance scanning engine - Many logging tools work fine for a small volume of events but crash when the volume increases. EventsManager was designed for a large volume of events (read more)