logview4net

UDP Listener listens for UDP traffic on a given port.

• Sender IP: This is the IPv4 adress of the udp package sender.
• Port: The port to listen on.
• Prefix: A small text that is shown before the event in the viewer to indicate where the event came from.

EventLog Listener monitors an event log.

• Host IP: IP address of the machine hosting the event log.
• Log name: The eventlog to monitor.
• Poll intervall: How often, in milliseconds, the eventlog should be checked. This is only used when not monitoring the local machine. The listener uses events for local event logs.
• Append field names: Whether or not to append the eventlog field names to the log data.
• Prefix: A small text that is shown before the event in the viewer to indicate where the event came from.

MS-SQL Listener does a tail on a table in a Microsoft SQL Server Database

• Prefix: A small text that is shown before the event in the viewer to indicate where the event came from.
• Server: Hostname or IP of the SQL-Server
• User: Username to use for login.
• Password: Password to use for login.
• Windows Authentication: Check this if you want to use windows integrated security to login.
• Database: The databes to use.
• Table: The table to watch.
• Max Column: The column to SELECT MAX from to find new rows.
• Poll intervall: How often, in milliseconds, to check the table for new rows.
• Start at end: When this is checked only new items are showed. When it is not checked the listener starts with getting all rows in the table.

Actions are instructions to the viewer how it should react to different events. When an event is received by the viewer it looks through the associated actions from the top and applies the first matching action. An action is concidered a match when its pattern matches one or more words in the log event.

• Pattern: A string to match against the text of an event
• Action type: What to do when an event matches the pattern.
• Color: The fore color to use for the hightlight action.
• Delete: Press the Delete button corresponding to an actions you want to remove from the current session.
• Add: Adds an action to the current session.

Highlight

Enables coloring of an event.

Ignore

Makes the event not to appear in the viewer.

Popup

Pops up a messagebox with the event data.

Highlight match

Enables coloring of the matched content inside the event.

Start ignore

Tells the viewer to start ignoring all events until it receives an End Ignore action.

End ignore

Tells the viewer to start showing events again after ignoring them. The events are not counted so one End will terminate the ignoring even if there has been five Start actions.

This is where you configure a log session.

• Session title: This is the window title of the session.
• Listeners: Choose what kind of log listener you want to use in the drop down list and click ‘Add’. You will be presented with the relevant options for the selected type of listener. You can add as many listeners to one session as you want as long as they are not in conflict with each other. This will for example happen if you try to add two UDP Listeners that listen on the same port.
• Viewer: This is where you configure the viewer.
• Load: Cick here to load a saved log session configuration.
• Save: Click here to save the current log session configuration. If you save it as DefaultSession.xml in the application folder it will be loaded when starting the application.
• OK: Click here to start the session.