Microsoft Log Parser Toolkit: A complete toolkit for Microsoft's undocumented log analysis tool |  | Authors: Gabriele Giuseppini, Mark Burnett, Jeremy Faircloth, Dave Kleiman
Publisher: Syngress
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ISBN: 1932266526
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Publication Date: February 24, 2005
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Written by Microsoft's Log Parser developer, this is the first book available on Microsoft's popular yet undocumented log parser tool. The book and accompanying Web site contain hundreds of customized, working scripts and templates that system administrators will find invaluable for analyzing the log files from Windows Server, Snort IDS, ISA Server, IIS Server, Exchange Server, and other products.
System administrators running Windows, Unix, and Linux networks manage anywhere from 1 to thousands of operating systems (Windows, Unix, etc.), Applications (Exchange, Snort, IIS, etc.), and hardware devices (firewalls, routers, etc.) that generate incredibly long and detailed log files of all activity on the particular application or device. This book will teach administrators how to use Microsoft's Log Parser to data mine all of the information available within these countless logs. The book teaches readers how all queries within Log Parser work (for example: a Log Parser query to an Exchange log may provide information on the origin of spam, viruses, etc.). Also, Log Parser is completely scriptable and customizable so the book and accompanying Web site will provide the reader with hundreds of original, working scripts that will automate these tasks and provide formatted charts and reports detailing the results of the queries.
* Written by Microsoft's sole developer of Log Parser, this is the first book available on the powerful yet completely undocumented product that ships with Microsoft's IIS, Windows Advanced Server 2003, and is available as a free download from the
Microsoft Web site.
* The book and accompanying Web site contain dozens of original, working Log Parser scripts and templates for Windows Server, ISA Server, Snort IDS, Exchange Server, IIS, and more!
* This book and accompanying scripts will save system administrators countless hours by scripting and automating the most common to the most complex log analysis tasks.
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 Superb book on a powerful Windows tool December 29, 2009
Jay P. Vansanten
Log Parser can be a Windows sys admin's dream come true. In one tool, it can input from a large variety of sources (file system, registry, log files, IIS log flavors, command line tools, etc.), has an extensible architecture, provides a SQL-like syntax to query, and provides a variety of output formats, including graphs, text, syslog, XML, HTML, email, and such.
The book is written by the author of the tool. The tool's interface appears simple. The power of it is revealed in the variety of uses to which it can be put -- those uses involve the sophisticated command variations possible. The book reveals precisely this.
If you're overwhelmed by system information and how to monitor that without a bunch of 3rd party tools, take a look at Log Parser. It may be just what you need.
Syngress was acquired by Elsevier Publishing. The source files are now available at [...]
 Good useful toolkit November 3, 2009
C. Jans
Being able to easily correlate information from multiple event logs is a big help.
Many of the examples are aimed at maintaining and improving security. I found the techniques described helpful for chasing linked defects in a multiple-machine server farm.
Unfortunately, the examples from the book are no longer available on the publisher's web site.
 More Examples! August 31, 2009
A. D. Lum (Honolulu, Hawaii)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is factual, accurate, and authoritative. But I don't like technical books that read like technical books. "Huh?" you say.
If I were to write this book, I would make it easier to understand with ample examples. It's better than Log Paser's Help, but not by a whole lot. I believe that technical books should be reasonably easy to understand - even by the non-technical.
My 3 star rating is just my opinion/experience. Others may find this book to be just the ticket.
Great book!! August 28, 2008
Michael J. Bell (Boston, MA)
This is a must have for any systems engineer who needs to take a proactive approach in system monitoring. Used in conjunction with ASP and a backend database, real time monitoring apps are a snap to build.
Dream Book on Dream Tool October 4, 2006
Joaquin Menchaca (San José, CA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This tool is amazing in that it supports a variety input and output formats including reading in syslog and outputting into databases are pretty Excel charts. The filtering uses an SQL syntax. The tool comes with a DLL that can be registered, so that scripters (VBScript, Perl, JScript, etc.) can access the power of this tool.
This book not only covers the tool (alternative being to scrape the network for complex incomprehensible snippets), but shows real world practical solutions with the tool, from analyzing web logs, system events, security and network scans, etc.
This tool is just heavensend for analysis and transforming of any data in a variety of formats. The book and tool go hand-in-hand, and I highly recommend incorporating this into your tool (and book) into your tool kit and/or scripting endeavors immediately.
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