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2. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 LogCaster NT Real Time System Monitoring

3. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 Customer Requirements Increasing NT security. Increasing system availability. Reducing HelpDesk response-time. Reducing Network Load. Reducing Total Cost of Ownership. Allocating resources efficiently.

4. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 Objective Gaining instant vision into NT networks. Becoming aware of problems immediately. Maximizing the availability of critical systems.

5. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 Taking corrective actions automatically. Performance data-based asset management. Cross Platform Event MiddleWare. Objective

6. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 Meeting the Needs Increasing NT security. Real Time Notifications 100% Active Push Technology. Alerting and paging. Building consolidated audit trails.

7. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 Increasing system availability. -Service Watcher and Scheduled reboot. -TCP/IP Watcher. Reducing Network Load. -Event filtering. -Active Event Caching. Meeting the Needs

8. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 Meeting the Needs Reducing HelpDesk response- time. Real Time corrective actions and scripting. Remote Shell.

9. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 Reducing Total Cost of Ownership. Catching Server problems early with Application and System log analysis. Performance monitoring and alerting. Performance based capacity planning. Meeting the Needs

10. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 Allocating resources efficiently. Identifying and reallocating idle resources instead of purchasing new hardware. Meeting the Needs

11. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 Our Strengths n Super Low Resource Utilization. n Low Cost All-In-One Solution. n Non Intrusive System Level Services. n Expandable Modular Framework. n LAN / WAN Support.

12. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 Key Benefits LC acts as a burglar alarm. LC keeps critical services running. LC can automates corrective actions. LC can watch TCP/IP devices. LC offers a wide variety of notification devices. LC provides consolidated event reports.

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14. LOGCASTER AGENT EVENT PROCESSES

15. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 NT EVENT LOG Using Event Logs to monitor Windows NT events With Event Viewer, you can troubleshoot various hardware and software problems. You can also use Event Viewer to monitor Windows NT Server security events, which are significant system or program problems that users should be notified about.

16. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 APPLICATIONS SYSTEM FUNCTIONS SECURITY THE 3 BASIC MONITOR CONSIDERATIONS FOR NT ARE:

17. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 NT EVENT LOG APPLICATION “The Eventlog service logs any significant system, security, and application occurrences that require users to be notified. “ Microsoft Application related events can be as simple as an event generated by your defragger identifying the files it just addressed, or as critical as the unauthorized access attempt by an employee to start or stop an application.

18. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 NT EVENT LOG SECURITY “The Eventlog service logs any significant system, security, and application occurrences that require users to be notified. “ Microsoft

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22. NT EVENT LOG SECURITY “The Eventlog service logs any significant system, security, and application occurrences that require users to be notified. “ Microsoft Inconsequential System related events can be configured to be ignored while critical events generate alarms. SYSTEMS

23. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 SYSTEMS APPLICATION NT EVENT LOG LOGCASTER AGENT EVENT PROCESSES SECURITY

24. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 APPLICATION SYSTEMS SECURITY NT EVENT LOG LOGCASTER FILTER LOGCASTER AGENT EVENT PROCESSES USER DEFINED FILTER Let’s talk about the LogCaster Filter processes.

25. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 LOGCASTER FILTER USER DEFINED FILTER

26. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 LOGCASTER FILTER USER DEFINED FILTER

27. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 LOGCASTER FILTER USER DEFINED FILTER The user defined filter description is entered here.

28. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 The Event Viewer Detail Window will display this data. The user can select the criteria for an alarm.

29. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 Advanced Filtering Options allow the user more detailed configuration of his new filter.

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31. All of the user’s filters are described here.

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33. APPLICATION SYSTEMS SECURITY NT EVENT LOG LOGCASTER FILTER USER DEFINED FILTER DEFAULT NETWORK TRASH LOGCASTER AGENT EVENT PROCESSES Process ID’s Informational Print Messages

34. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 APPLICATION SYSTEMS SECURITY NT EVENT LOG LOGCASTER FILTER USER DEFINED FILTER DEFAULT NETWORK TRASH LOGCASTER AGENT EVENT PROCESSES

35. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 LOGCASTER EVENT DISPATCHER SERVER

36. Ripple Technologies, Inc 7/98 LOGCASTER EVENT DISPATCHER SERVER EVENT MATCHING Event # 1 Event # 2 Event # 3 Event # 4 Event # 5 Event # 6 Count Threshold 15 34 CRC 3 2 10 81 3 1 1 CACHE Other Site Console E-Mail D Base Pager

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