Mastering Active Directory

Collecting Windows logs for analysis

Using OMS, we also can collect Windows logs and use OMS analyzing capabilities to analyze those. When this is enabled, OMS space usage and bandwidth usage on the organization end will be higher. In order to collect logs, follow these steps:

1. Log in to the OMS portal.
2. Go to Settings | Data | Windows Event Logs.
3. In the box, you can search for the relevant log file name and add it to the list. We can also select the type of event to extract. Once the selection is made, click on Save:

4. After a few minutes, you can start to see the events under the Log Search option. In there, using queries, we can filter ...