[Xymon] EventMon for BB - has anyone tried it?

[SebA]

I found EventMon on the Dell Big Brother forums and I wondered if anyone had
tried
it (with Xymon especially) or if anyone thinks it is worth trying or if they
prefer
another solution (which is?):
 
> EventMon v1.5
> 
> EventMon v1.5 is a standalone event monitor service that allows for 
> integrating windows event monitors into BB. The service runs on 2000, XP, 
> 2003, Vista, Windows 7 and 2008, 32 and 64 bit variants and can monitor 
> any/all of the event logs on the machine. It's a viable replacement for
the 
> msgs test included in BBNT, which is routinely disabled when using this 
> service, and provides superior filtering and managment of event reporting.

> There's a configuation GUI included that allows you to manage the behavior

> of the service, the name of the test, BB port and server as well as to 
> configure rules for how to report events to bb by category, source, event 
> ID, etc. Users select what events to ignore, and what events to alert and 
> alarm on, regardless of the type of event (errors can be ignored, or 
> reported as warnings, information messages can be reported as errors, 
> classes of messages can be ignored, etc.). Reporting is completely user-
> configuratble, including logging messages without alerts or alarms etc.for

> historical record. Version 1.5 is a minor upgrade from v1.3, copied to
this 
> site frmom deadcat. This version has some bug fixes as well as a new 
> parameter, StartFromLastRun, which forces the service, upon starting, to 
> scan logs starting from the last time the service ran. This parameter 
> should be set when using BB as the facility to monitor and record all 
> useful event from a machine.
> 
> Please read the included PDF file for complete instructions.
> 
> Jim Graczyk

Ref:
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/application-management/big-brother/m
/customeo/20440195

Kind regards,

SebA