System monitoring software

[nloding]

Here's the short of it -- my IT team monitors about 30 servers, all running Server 2003 Small Business edition, and we have regular server reports to fill out, including checking backups, the firewall, etc. The main thing that is time consuming is going through the Event Log and pulling all errors.

I'm looking for some software to help us shorten that time -- something that pulls all the errors from the Event log maybe. Something free is very, very much what we want, but we have a budget and can spend some on licensing if need be.

Any suggestions?

[Jeremy]

So ideally you'd like a method to export only Warning and Errors from the 30 servers on the network (or are they networked even?) to a single log file or folder of logs, right?

Try this: Linky Looks to me like it will be exactly what you need, and it is free for personal use from what I can see there.

[nloding]

Looks pretty close! I'll bring it up to the boss man and see what he thinks.

If there are any other suggestions let me know.

BTW, yes, that is what I would like -- something to export the errors from the event logs. This one does look nice, with it's ability to do remote computers locally ... I'll check it out.