I mentioned how cluttered the AEV interface might seem at first, but I also realized how customizable it is the more I use it. The View menu displays a list of all active toolbars and filters. You can easily close areas of the user interface you don’t want to see at all times such as the Application Event log and Event Detail panes. You can even collapse the pane located on the right when you are not using it. When not in use the If you are encountering a case of too much logs which can become overwhelming depending the size of  the network, AEV comes with a host of options that make it very convenient for Administrators to search and filter through logs. For instance, the Application pane, features five list boxes from which you can choose a variety of options whether all errors, warnings, by date, source type (MSDTC, WinMgmt, crypt32), by ID, or system. You can quickly turn of off logs on areas of the system such as Application, Security and System from the Event Log books pane. If you are searching for  specific types of events, you can enable the Filter and customize it by adding a filter just for fields you need in addition to wild cards, you can even configure the filters for specific types of logs such as Application, Security, System, DNS, Active Directory or File Replication Service.

The Managed Servers pane, displays a list of all Servers and clients within the Network along with real time information from systems. You can again quickly wade through logs by unchecking computers that are being logged under the Computer Name window. You can also do common task such as Add computer by name, from within AD, use the Server and Credentials link to easily add servers from other domains. The Server Information link comes in quite handy and displays information such as Domain, OS Name, Version, Manufacturer, system time (Virtual or Physical), processor, BIOS, User logged on, allocated memory etc. You can even export the information for further use as a CSV or HTML file. Gosh, I wish I had this back in 2003.

The AEV App log stores information logs for its purpose only, activities such as Scanning the Server and computers within the network. You have the option of keeping this information or you can export to CSV or HTML.

AEV includes sophisticated Reporting capabilities, that makes it easy to gather information using a quick step wizard. Just the Report a Name. Specifies the event books to be included in the report, you can choose from Applications, Security, System, Server Disk Capacity, DNS Server, Directory, and File replication. Next, select the event records type to be include: Warnings, Errors, Critical, that you find of interest. You can select from the list box from how long you want the reports, whether within the last hour, a week ago or even a month back. Next, you can choose from a range of options for how the report must be formatted, such as .PDF, HTML, Text or CSV, then choose the location where it should be stored or emailed to.

Advanced Event Viewers preferences allows you to further customize how the program captures information about system and network activities.

General – You can chose the path where data from logs are stored, along with HTML template location, temp location.

Retrieving Options – Not all logs are necessary, you are not gonna necessarily need information from 3 months ago, especially if you are managing a large network. This can ultimate utilize a lot of storage space. So AEV makes it easy for you to specify just what you need, you can capture events for New Servers added to the network, retrieve events only from the last day, or load the most recent events with a default allocation of 300 events, you can specify your own load all events if you wish. In addition to these options, you can specify different Event types.

Advanced Event Viewer I must certainly say is a must have for any Administrator, if you are managing a network of 25 PC’s to even medium or large deployments. The features are beneficial to getting better insight as to what is happening day in and day out. The vast features of this release makes it even more worthy an upgrade. I do wish some of the repetitive aspects of the UI such as adding Systems, and filters could be consolidated into a collapsible pane. The toolbar menus could be more customizable like Microsoft Office and less wordy too, tool tips about what each feature does would be more welcoming along with the fact that the icons are very explainable already.

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