Re: Security Event Log

From: Jeff Cochran (jcochran)
Date: 10/11/02


From: jcochran at naplesgov dot com (Jeff Cochran)
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:18:23 GMT


>I have a Windows 2000 SP3 server running IIS, and I need
>to log object access Success and Failure. I have done
>that with no problem. However, there is a lot of traffic
>on that server and the Security Log file is growing to
>200 MGB in less than 24 hours. How do I increase the size
>of the Security event log file?

Event Viewer, Right Click Security Log, Properties, set Maximum Log
Size. Though you may wish to rethink your auditing. Do you *really*
want to search a 200 MB file for something?

Jeff



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