{"id":64,"date":"2016-05-05T11:31:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T11:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/us111.siteground.us\/~tlhouse0\/logmeister.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2016-05-05T11:31:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T11:31:28","slug":"custom-event-log-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.logmeister.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/05\/custom-event-log-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom Event Log Views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a very useful feature in LogMeister (and EventMeister) that some customers have missed: custom event log views.\u00a0 They enable you to gather events from multiple eventlogs &#8211; filterered by type &#8211; through a <em>single<\/em> feed. Not only does this make management of your most important events much easier, it is also more efficient in terms of cpu and network utilization.<\/p>\n<p>The option to use custom views first appears on the &#8220;Types&#8221; page of the Eventlog wizard:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us111.siteground.us\/~tlhouse0\/logmeister.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/AddCustomView.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65\" src=\"http:\/\/us111.siteground.us\/~tlhouse0\/logmeister.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/AddCustomView.jpg\" alt=\"AddCustomView\" width=\"577\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.logmeister.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/AddCustomView.jpg 577w, https:\/\/www.logmeister.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/AddCustomView-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the screenshot, LogMeister comes with two pre-built custom views: &#8220;_Administrative Events_&#8221; which covers Microsoft&#8217;s recommendations for Server 2008 installations, and &#8220;_Administrative Events For Svr2012_&#8221; which has been extended specifically for Server 2012. You&#8217;re free to use them as-is, or customize them, but by pressing &#8220;Add Custom View&#8221; you can define your own from scratch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us111.siteground.us\/~tlhouse0\/logmeister.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DefineCustomView.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66\" src=\"http:\/\/us111.siteground.us\/~tlhouse0\/logmeister.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DefineCustomView.jpg\" alt=\"DefineCustomView\" width=\"527\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.logmeister.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DefineCustomView.jpg 527w, https:\/\/www.logmeister.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DefineCustomView-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just tick the event logs that you want to monitor. If a log you need isn&#8217;t shown in the list (and you know it&#8217;s present on the remote machine) then just type its name in the &#8220;Additional Log&#8221; field and press Add. Finally choose what level of event you want to record by ticking the Event Types boxes, and give your custom view a meaningful name.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it! The feed(s) you create with your new custom event view will now gather all your targeted events. What&#8217;s more, you&#8217;re still free to add additional filtering on a per feed basis, and to use LogMeister&#8217;s rule-based interface to create &#8220;notifications&#8221; that will alert you or even take automatic action when specific conditions are met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a very useful feature in LogMeister (and EventMeister) that some customers have missed: custom event log views.\u00a0 They enable you to gather events from multiple eventlogs &#8211; filterered by <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.logmeister.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/05\/custom-event-log-views\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.logmeister.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.logmeister.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.logmeister.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.logmeister.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.logmeister.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.logmeister.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.logmeister.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.logmeister.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.logmeister.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}