While Windows 2000 promises many changes in the Windows NT architecture, Microsoft is making very few changes to the event log and event monitoring components of the operating system. Since maintaining and dealing with Windows event logs can be a frustrating experience for most conscientious system administrators, this lack of improvement is disappointing. The Event Viewer, through the standard standalone application or through the Microsoft Management Console (MMC), is often not powerful enough to display just the right view of system activity that a system administrator needs. Witness the pop-up of an entire cottage industry of event log monitoring and analysis utilities - all which attempt to overcome the shortcomings of the immature alert technology built-in to Windows NT and the ability to aggregate and analyze multiple event logs. Even though some of the commercial tools are neat, most are expensive and do not integrate with each other or with other operating system?
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