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title: A five star EventsManager!
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# [A five star EventsManager!](https://blog.grantmcgregor.co.uk/2013/a-five-star-eventsmanager)

 Written by [Grant McGregor Team](https://blog.grantmcgregor.co.uk/author/grmc-team) | 20/06/13 14:30

 

[GFI EventsManager](https://www.grantmcgregor.co.uk/it-software-and-solutions/gfi/events-manager/)® helps busy Network IT staff to manage event log data for system reliability, security, availability and compliance.

Events Manager has absolutely nothing to do with helping someone to plan a wedding, set up the Edinburgh Festival or to organise a big conference.

No it's a log data analysis tool for Security Information and Events Management - otherwise known as SIEM.

With EventsManager, IT staff can monitor security-relevant policies, mechanisms, applications and activity to identify security incidents quickly.  Analysis of log data, including SNMP traps, Windows® event logs, W3C logs, text-based logs, Syslog, SQL Server® and Oracle® audit logs is all made much more simple and much less time-consuming.

With a simple interface, [GFI EventsManager provides compliance reporting](https://www.grantmcgregor.co.uk/it-software-and-solutions/gfi/events-manager/) - offering specific reports for some of the major compliance acts as well as other standard reports.

 

### [See the most compelling features of GFI Events Manager here.](https://www.grantmcgregor.co.uk/it-software-and-solutions/gfi/events-manager/)

 

There's no need to take it from me or from the vendor GFI. Their latest version of this essential aid has recently been put through it's paces by the good people at [SC Magazine](http://www.scmagazine.com//gfi-eventsmanager-2013/review/3848/). Their verdict - "This is a solid product that's easy to use. Five stars overall."

Although GFI includes technical support as part of the purchase price, end-users must rely on documentation and PDF guides to get them started (albeit this is pretty user-friendly). As a seasoned Gold GFI Partner, Grant McGregor can help you to [buy GFI EventsManager](https://www.grantmcgregor.co.uk/it-software-and-solutions/gfi/events-manager/)licenses at a price starting at around £117 per node for 50 to 99 seats. Moreover, we can help with GFI Events Manager expertise to kick-start your implementation and help you to get a swifter return from your investment in it.

Both SC Magazine and our own EventsManager clients have found it to be excellent value. This combination of a well designed and easy to use log management tool that makes sense of shedloads of systems information is well worth the money.

#### [SC Magazine's Findings](http://www.scmagazineuk.com/gfi-languard-2012/review/3829/):

For: Integration of mature features and functions into the product.

Against: Absence of a ticketing feature.

Verdict: Solid product, easy to use, though a weak formal ticketing solution

 

If you like the sound of this you can arrange a short demo of the product from Grant McGregor or you can [download GFI EventsManager  ](https://www.grantmcgregor.co.uk/it-software-and-solutions/gfi/events-manager/)for a free 30-day trial to see how it would save your IT department precious time in analysing systems log file data.

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