Windows Security Log consolidation

Hi,
How do you do?
I am doing a project to consolidate security event logs from 6-7 client terminals to a central sever.
The clients are using Windows 7 or 8 and the server is Linux based (at least RHEL5.8).
I am wondering what is the best approach. Under normal Windows environment,i will use the subscription feature in event viewer of the server to subscribe logs from the clients.
But to a Linux server? Do I use SMB protocol?
Any suggestions?

Hi,
About the tool for Linux Server, I Suggest you ask in Linux support for help.
For Windows side, please refer to this thread:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/f82d4872-601f-47c0-8c84-e2cac269fe00/event-logging-server
Karen Hu
TechNet Community Support

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Hi,
You can unselect some useless auditing entry, such as “Traverse folder / execute file”, or limited the maximum size of the log.
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Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing
Date:          4/23/2014 2:04:42 PM
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Keywords:      Audit Failure
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Account Name:
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Hi Rayminette,
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Hi Everyone,
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A good point to start is get-eventlog with where clauses.
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<add key="log4net.Internal.Debug" value="true"/>
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<system.diagnostics>
<trace autoflush="true">
<listeners>
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type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener"
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<param name="Threshold" value="all" />
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1.     Click Start, and then click Run.
2.     In the Open text box, type regedit.
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog
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1.     Click Start, and then click Run.
2.     In the Open text box, type regedit.
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog
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5.     In the dialog that pops up, click Add...
6.     Click Advanced...
7.     Click Locations... and select the current machine by name.
8.     Click Find Now
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11.     Click Apply and OK
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363648(v=vs.85).aspx
Edited by: Paul Fowler on Feb 21, 2013 9:45 AM

Thanks for sharing this information Paul.

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Regards
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I did a WMI test and queried to see the security logs. Nothing found. I see only Application and System logs. No security logs were found.
I used the below query.
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Thanks in advance.
Rajiv,
Technical Support Engineer.

On Windows Server 10 TP, I don't see the same behavior you describe...
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