GFI Events Manager - Opinions?

[arch3angel at gmail.com (Robert Miller)]

I just asked my co-worker what was it he wanted to accomplish and he 
stated the following:

    basically give us a tool to centralize all the logs we generate and
    make sense out of it.  Exception based information so we don't have
    to chase unnecessary items.  This also gives us the audit
    information in a very presentable manner we need to if and when we
    go through pci

Not sure if that explains it any better or not.

- Robert

Butturini, Russell wrote:
> I think it depends on what you're trying to accomplish with it.  I very
> much like the reporting engine that EventsManager has, and it does a
> pretty good job at classifying and archiving Windows events.  We had
> some issues with the way it pulled logs from Cisco firewalls (both Pix
> and ASA) though.  
>
> If you'll go into some more detail on what you want to accomplish I can
> try to help out.  I've worked with it quite a bit.
>
>
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> Hey Everyone,
>
> What is everyones opinion of GFI Events Manager?
>
> Do you suggest something different?
>
> Our company does not have a huge budget otherwise I could look at things
>
> like Tenable, however we have absolutely nothing and need something.  
> One of my co-workers suggested GFI, but I have no experience or opinion 
> on the product, thus I turn to you good folks :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert
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