My Orion NPM server is in a domain but I need to monitor the Windows Event Log on some servers in a Workgroup. Is it possible to do this using the APM module?
What exactly are you trying to monitor? If you log into your customer support portal, you should be able to locate the Windows Event Forwarder that will forwards events to Orion as a syslog message. You can then create alerts that trigger based on the content of these messages. BTW, it will need to be installed on the Windows servers you want to monitor and it has nothing to do with APM.
I logged into my customer support portal and could not find this Windows Event Forwarder you are referring to. I was not able to locate this anywhere on the Solarwinds site. This tool may do the trick if I could locate it. Does this tool forward all Windows Event Logs on the server or could I specify only the events I care about be forwarded?
In the customer portal, click Additional Components on the left side. On the next page, click Download Orion NPM Components and you should find Windows Event Forwarder under the Additional Components - Orion V8 and V9 section. You can only filter it down to the event log you would like to forward such as Application, Security or System.
Sweet...it was exactly where you said it was. I'll try it out and let you know how it worked out. Looks pretty simple to configure, thanks for the quick response.
