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Screenshot 71: Configuring Windows Event Log Processing parameters
4. Select Clear collected events after completion to clear the collected events from the respective
event source.
5. Select Archive events in database to archive collected events without applying events processing
rules.
6. Select Process using these rule sets and select the rule sets you want to run against the collected
events.
7. Select Add generic fields to add extended fields to the database. Extended fields contain data
from event descriptions and are added by a common name (example: "Field01", "Custom field name").
8. Click Apply and OK.
Important
Deleting event logs without archiving may lead to legal compliance penalties.
5.2 Collecting Text logs
Text Logs are other log formats supported by GFI EventsManager. W3C logs are text-based flat files
containing various event details delimited by special characters.
The W3C log format is most commonly used by hardware systems (Example: servers and appliances)
which have Internet specific roles. Microsoft
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Internet Information Server (IIS) service and Apache
web servers for example, can collect web related events such as web logs, in the form of W3C
formatted text files.