TextMeister description
TextMeister - a generic text log viewer with powerful monitoring and event notification

TextMeister is a generic text log reader with powerful log monitoring and event notification facilities. A single installation can harvest Text log data throughout your network without the need for multiple licences.

TextMeister gathers information from virtually any text logs on your computer or any networked computer. Data from all logs is presented to you in a consistent, easy to read format.

Use powerful filters to retrieve only the information in which you're interested and merge data from multiple logs for easier timeline analysis.

You can filter, sort and reorganize columns to assist with detailed analysis and data presentation, and create multiple views of the same data.

At any time you can export a log, aggregate log or cross-section of a log in various formats including text, csv, xml, formatted html and RSS. This makes it easy to import filtered data into databases or analysis applications such as Excel.

You can even publish your logs or specific data entries and data views as RSS feeds. TextMeister resides in your system tray and will monitor your logs 24/7, watching out for certain entry patterns.

When it identifies an item of interest, it will respond by issuing visual and audio alerts, sending emails, writing to a log and even running your own scripts.

IMPORTANT: If the 'Install Service Component' option is selected, the service will be set to run under the same account as the application itself. This account MUST have administrator privileges and be password protected. Take care to enter the correct password during installation otherwise the service will not run.

You can install / uninstall the service component at any time simply by running the install wizard (the installation program) again. None of your settings will be affected by this, but it's always wise to take a backup before making any changes - see "Backing Up" in the Help for details.

Here are some key features of "TextMeister":

· Auto load at start up
· Minimize to system tray
· XP Theme Aware
· Number of logs/machines that can be monitored restricted only by system resources
· Highly configurable - can read virtually any text log format.
· Powerful filtering capability with support for regular expressions
· Merge logs for easier analysis of sequential events across applications or network computers
· Create satellite windows to display different views of data
· Search logs
· Sort logs by any column
· Reorder, hide and show individual columns
· View any log as a formatted HTML report
· Export any log, filtered feed or aggregate feed to RSS, XML, comma-separated (CSV) or tab-separated text files
· Convert any log into a live RSS feed
· Export any log, filtered feed or aggregate feed to a formatted html report and display it in your browser
· All html reports use cascading style sheets for easy customization
· All html reports use separate style sheets for printing and viewing
· Update RSS, CSV or txt files with new data as it arrives in the source log
· Monitor and raise alerts on text files, Event Logs, RSS files, ICF logs
· Control the frequency with which source logs are polled for new data
· Specify complex match criteria to search for events occurring within logs
· Task bar popup
· Play a system sound or .wav file
· Send an email with optional attachment
· Run an application, script or batch file
· Write to a log (text, CSV, RSS).


Requirements:

· Charts & printing requires IE6.


What's New in This Release:

· Added automated report generation for feeds. This is available only for licensed copies of the application. As this release changes the format of feed definitions, we recommend backing up your existing feeds prior to installing this update. Please see the section titled "Backing up and Transferring Settings" in the Help for more details.
· Improved automated feed compaction
· Improved scrolling behavior in filter dialogs