Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:32:22 +0200

1. Ability to break message text into multiple fields for the ODBC log

target.

2. Perfmon user definable counters measuring velocity and counts of

specific message text patterns.

3. Some basic authentication for access to the Telnet (Viewer); =

Ideally

linked to an NT Authentication role. Authentication should be required

either globally and/or by Viewer channel.

4. Dynamic selection of Viewer channel based on information in the =

message

text.

5. COM component log target (plug-in) for custom extensibility. If I =

had

this, I could implement #1 and #2 myself.

#1 and #5 are the most important to me. Our application generates a lot =

of

structured event information that then gets flatted to the syslog =

message

text. We then have to do post processing on the logs to regain the

structured information for reporting and analysis. We could use a COM

interface for custom handling of events that better integrate with the

applications runtime environment.

#3 addresses protection of possibly sensitive information in an =

production

environment. If I have this, I'd then also want some protection (I =

know,

doesn't conform to syslog spec) for data on the wire.

#4 would give us the ability to zero in on log message trigger by =

actions

for a single user session in a multi-user environment.

#2 is a nice-to-have feature that would allow use to use Perfmon and =

SL4NT

to monitor performance and events across all machines in a distributed

environment.

Tell me your thoughts.