IT Manager /CXO of an enterprise are responsible to manage all IT infrastructure of an enterprise. This includes a vigorous update on the status of various security threats posed by internal users in their enterprise, and have a vital eye on various internal transactions carried out. It makes them to demand summary reports on important IT resources from their team, which includes specific stern events.
Such requirements are often delegated to system administrators and other IT staff, who supply IT managers with these specific reports. Mostly the information a CXO requires are Bird’s eye view of
- Network security status for the complete enterprise
- Overall compliance status and related remediation /configuration changes done.
System Administrators, on the contrary always like to appraise themselves on the various events that are carried out in their enterprise servers, which includes application events, security events and system events. This requires them to monitor user activity, usage of servers, and carry out necessary configuration changes.
Event logs from various IT resources are used by Sysadmin community to achieve this purpose. Using event logs, one can easily follow wall out procedures for effective troubleshooting, and reap faster remediation. The aggregated information and reports from the System Administrators help IT managers to determine the above said points.
EventLog Analyzer is an industry favorite tool, which provides effective solutions for this community to be at ease. The power packed feature set in EventLog Analyzer enables its users to create any number of custom reports based on any specific requirements, by using a couple of mouse clicks.
It has a built in feature called as Ask ME, that bears some high level set of questions based on various events collected from the monitored hosts. These are some common FAQ’s for any enterprise’s IT team, where you click on your relevant question and get the answer.
You can create your own custom questions apart from our canned questions, and include them into EventLog Analyzer Ask ME tab. Using this feature, a system administrator can create a custom report profile that interests his CXO, and integrate this question into the ASK me tab.
Try this out by following the steps given in the link below:
http://www.manageengine.com/products/eventlog/help/eventlog-misc/add-questions-askme.html
IT mangers can login to the user interface of EventLog Analyzer application, and get the required summary reports in real time.
After all, analytical summary data are meant for the managerial hats, and drill down exercises are vital for the engineering team.
