Table 1: Feature Comparison
	Event Log Management Suite	EventTracker	ServScan
General features
Alerting	•	•	•
Archiving	•	•
Reporting	•	•
Architecture	Agent-optional	Agent-based	Agentless
Alert methods
SMTP email	•	•
Command execution		•	•
SNMP integration		•	•
Pop-ups	•	•	•
Alert console		•
Forward to Syslog server	•
Pager via modem	•		•
Flood prevention			•
Threshold alerts		•
Archive methods
To ODBC database	•	•
Actual EVT files	•	•
Reporting methods
Prebuilt and user-defined reports with central archive database	•	•
Prebuilt and user-defined reports with EVT files as source	•
Rating	4.5 out of 5	4 out of 5	2 out of 5
Recommendation	A best-of-breed, focused event-log manager	Good value for the money, especially if you need to monitor other Windows components besides the Security log and don't mind installing agents on each server	At $60 a server, ServScan might have you opting for the more substantial functionality of a product such as Event Alarm