Events collected by the agent that meet the filtering requirements as per the audit configuration, will be displayed in the Latest Events window. This display is NOT a display from the text-based log file, but rather a temporary display from a shared memory connection between the Epilog Remote Control Interface and the Epilog service. The Epilog remote control interface will begin with a clear event log, since filtered events are not written to a local disk during normal operations. This list will be empty if the agent has not yet found any matching events or if there has been a network problem and the agent has temporarily suspended event processing.
A key feature of the Epilog service is that events are not stored locally on the host (except for the log files being monitored by Epilog), but rather sent out over the network to one or more remote hosts, and a summary version of the events is displayed on the window.
Other useful information of the Latest Events Window is as follows:
- restricted to a list of 20 entries and cannot be cleared, except by restarting the Epilog service
- new events will be displayed in green
- the window will automatically refresh every 30 seconds or when the Latest Events menu item is selected
- displays the status of the current network connection(s) to the log server
- displays the date and time of the last HeartBeat sent, if applicable