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Can MOM Warn Me When My Security Log is Getting Full?

I am trying to find a way to use MOM to warn me when my Security log is about to violate my GPO setting of 25 MB. My GPO for security reasons is set to manual clearing of Event logs, and shut down when the security log is full. Any help even not using MOM would be most appreciated.

Contributed By: Nissim Ben-Maor, MVP MOM
You can create a vbscript or WMI to monitor the Security.env size - and to alert you when it comes to 24 MB.

Another thing you could do - is to use MOM to let you now that the system is shutting down (I think there should be an event that stating that the system is shutting down till you clean up your event log).

Oh, a better idea will be - because MOM can be used as a consolidator – you can still view all the security logs centrally, and if it's very important you can archive the MOM DB to an Offline DB, or to create a time rule – that will copy the event log to a central computer, and to clean up the security logs.