"I need help managing our environment. I can't review server performance daily or even weekly so instead I end up waiting until someone complains. I want a solution that monitors event logs, service states, process utilization, memory, disk space, key performance counters, application logs, software inventory and system configuration data and alerts me before users notice anything. It also has to have reporting capabilities so I can justify it with compliance and security budgets."

"Compliance and security management are my primary concerns. I need to reliably collect millions of Windows event logs, report on Logon and object access type data and securely archive the events for future forensic investigations. To be comprehensive, I would also like to centralize the Syslog messages from our firewalls."

"Keeping track of our system resource utilization has become very important. In the past we did a much better job of managing our resources. Now that our network has gotten so large, we have lost track of our servers. I need a tool that will trend CPU, disk space and memory so we can accurately budget our hardware investment requirements."

"Our event logs are only used as forensic tools; we would like to be more proactive. What I need is an affordable tool that will automate my Windows event log management in real-time and alert me as critical events occur. It would save me time if it also generated reports for my manager and the auditors."