Check all the logs in real time! The Universal Flat File Adapter!

Modern environments don't have just one event log or message queue anymore - there are usually many different applications, web servers, firewalls, etc. writing thousands if not millions of events in flat files, everyday, all over the place. The complexity of managing and monitoring these environments (multiple third-party applications, web servers, firewalls, databases and devices) that support today’s real-time IT infrastructures, makes it necessary to automate the management of events coming from any of these sources in a single console, to reduce costs and protect businesses from the consequences of application failures.  Applications Agent makes sure that no important event is missed and ensures your users utilzing your applications aren't doing what they shouldn't be doing.

The problem with logs - and how to solve it
Practically any application generates one or multiple logs. For instance, security logs are usually huge - and each one has a different format. Unless you have people dedicated to read every single line of all the logs produced daily in your company, chances are that your company is at risk - a critical failure may go unnoticed for a while, and performance, security, and productivity may suffer.

By processing and analyzing up to millions of log lines per day from multiple sources, from a single console, and notifying you only in the event of a potential problem, Tango/04 Application Agent is the ultimate real time log monitor. Designed with scalability and extensibility in mind, Applications Agent can recognize any type of log - even those from future applications.

Monitor your files for changes and size, too
Sometimes you need to know when a file or folder has been created, deleted or modified. Or when there is a suspicious change in size. Maybe you want to make sure that nobody is replacing programs or objects in Production. Or that nobody is tampering with your Windows system files.

Applications Agent can do all of this - it monitors any kind of file or folder for you. Files may reside on any kind of local or remote Windows file system, iSeries native or IFS, Unix/AIX/Linux, etc.

Benefits
Protects your IT infrastructure
Detects problems proactively, in real time
Reduces problem resolution times
Guarantees Service Level achievement
Predefined Microsoft ISA Server, Apache, and SQL Server monitors
Fully customizable and extensible

Real-Time Text File Processing
Applications Agent is a text file processor: it continuously reads information from files, and allows you to define processing based on that information. The main differentiator is that text files are processed in real time: the file is processed as soon as data is written by your applications.

Advanced Filtering Engine
There is usually a lot of non-useful information in log files. Just a small percentage of lines contain relevant information. But Applications Agent has an advanced, regular expression-based filtering engine that quickly discards irrelevant data from processed files.

Advanced Log File Processing
An easy-to-use interface allows you to define the file format. Both fixed-width fields and delimited field formats are supported.

Predefined File Formats for Popular Applications
Applications Agent comes with Microsoft ISA Server, Apache Web Server, SQL Server, and other popular application's log file format already defined.

Powerful Visual Script Language
Using an easy-to-use visual script language, you can always indicate how data is processed and what you want to do with this data. For instance, you can filter data out, format data with powerful string handling functions (and even define your own variables), and send custom events to the Windows Event Log.

Multi-Threaded Design for High Processing Loads
Web Servers and Data Base Servers usually produce huge log files. Applications Agent is designed to support high processing loads.

File System Monitoring
Applications Agent is also capable of monitoring standard file systems (such as Windows NTFS): creation, deletion, modification, and file size changes can be monitored in real time.

Be Proactive - Automate!
As events are processed in real time, you can automate event handling on the SmartConsole, effectively protecting your environment. When automation is not possible, the advanced notification capabilities of the SmartConsole help you escalate the problem to the appropriate owner immediately - not hours later.

Proper Statistical Analysis
By storing only the critical events and discarding all the irrelevant data, accurate analysis can be done - even from disparate applications and logs. Applications Agent helps you standardize logs from multiple sources. The advanced Reporting System can automatically generate reports and graphs in PDF or HTML formats.

Extensible
If what you need to monitor produces no log, chances are that you can produce a log by yourself. For example, you can generate a text file from many system and third-party utilities and commands. If you can do that, then you can automatically monitor it! Use these text-file producing tools in conjunction with the Windows Scheduler and Applications Agent and monitor practically anything!

Monitoring Corporate Web Sites
A multinational company operating in Belgium uses Applications Agent to monitor their European Web site - where more than 20 million log lines are produced by a WebSphere application. No other product was able to cope with that volume before, but now they know their e-commerce site is protected. Any suspicious situation (including security or even "404-page not found" errors) is immediately sent to the operator on duty by SMS or e-mail. 

Security Monitoring
Monitor all your security logs! Firewalls, routers, antivirus products, intrusion detection systems, and many other tools generate non-standard log files. Now it is very easy to collect all this scattered information in one place, in real time. Your company can be protected like never before.

e-Business Monitoring
Is your Web up and running? Are there any broken links? Are the CGI, J2EE, and JavaScript programs running correctly? Is there a user trying to access sensitive information? Was my home page changed? Applications Agent can monitor all your logs (Apache, IIS, IBM WebSphere and most application servers) and check all your files (HTML, JPG, etc.) detecting anything suspicious in real time.

Business Continuity
When most applications fail or something has happened that requires your attention, a full log file or a log entry in a large log file is generated, but not an event. Applications Agent monitors these files and entries in real time, 7/24… so you can make sure that your programs are running, your end users are productive, your customers are happy, and your company revenue-generating applications are fully operative.