Hi all, I have been looking for a non-commercial tool/utility that can acts like a bridge between Windows NT event logger and syslog-ng deamon. i.e is there a way to make all the windows servers to log the events to a unix/linux syslog server deamon. I have googled enough but disappointed to find that there are only some commercial s/w which have to be installed on the windowz boxes which will log them to unix servers but all of these are commercial products. Am i missing anything from the open source world. I want to ask you all if there is any freeware tool that can do this with out having to do much changes to the windows machine (i.e installing lot of other s/w ) I dont want to reinvent the wheel,so please let me know if you are aware of any tool that does this. if there is nothing else, i am planning to do this 1)use win32::EventLog from CPAN and write a perl deamon that watches for new events and 2) pushes them to a mysql DB on *nix server / converted into the syslog-ng format and logged by the syslog-ng server I want some input/suggestions on this if there is no freeware available. I am also looking for collbarators for making this contribution to the open source happen ASAP. I know windows event logger is not built/designed the way syslog is designed. but i think this would be a invaluable gift to sys admins and network admins who are maintaining heterogenous OSs in their facility Feel free to correct me if i am missing somethings here. Thanks in advance for all the future informative replies i will be getting for this e-mail, --Venkata Achanta