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Syslog messages
Notifications/alerts most commonly generated and transmitted to a Syslog server by UNIX and
Linux-based systems whenever important events occur. Syslog messages can be generated by
workstations, servers as well as active network devices and appliances such as Cisco routers
and Cisco PIX firewalls to record failures and security violations amongst other activities.
U
Unclassified events
Events that did not satisfy any of the event processing conditions configured in the event proc-
essing rules.
W
W3C logs
W3C is a common log format developed by the World Wide Web Consortium. W3C logs are
text-based flat files used mainly by web servers including Microsoft Internet Information
Server (IIS) to record web related events such as web logs.
Windows Event Logs
A collection of entries which describe events that occurred on a computer system running Win-
dows OS.