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Since the introduction of Windows NT platform by Microsoft, network administrators have struggled a lot with the task of maintaining their event logs on their networks. Every Windows NT machine either it’s a Workstation or Server, has three types of event logs: 1. Application Logs 2. Security Logs 3. System Logs All three of these event logs serve an essential purpose, such as reporting on the status of applications, auditing access attempts on computers throughout the network, and indicating potential hardware problems before they become terrible. Although event logs plays very significant role in network management but they do create problems for network administrators because they grow in size rapidly. In some cases, administrators may choose to make NT machines overwrite old event log entries when the logs become full and continue in a circular fashion. In most security conscious organizations, however, this is avoided since vital information is lost and unrecoverable in this way. On the other hand, administrators can set up their NT/2000 machines so that no information is overwritten or lost. Unfortunately, for this administrator have to clear each log by hand using the Event Viewer application that is shipped with Windows NT/2000. Obviously, in a LAN containing hundreds or more computers, it’s next to impossible to maintain each computer's event logs by hand and is appalling. Even if administrators write scripts to insure the ...