IAS Log Viewer

IAS Log Viewer

Overview

IAS Log Viewer is an administrative tool for viewing, understanding and analyzing log files from Microsoft IAS/NPS server.
With the IAS Log Viewer you can view log files at user-friendly form and use it as a lite RADIUS reporting tool for Microsoft Windows IAS/NPS server.
IAS Log Viewer has a many unique features and benefits:

• Works with log files from IAS or NPS server.
• The fast and correct work with huge log files.
• Support IAS-formatted, DTS compatible or ODBC formats of IAS log file.
• Open several log files or several directories with IAS log files.
• The smart bad lines detection module. The IAS Log Viewer skip bad lines in log file automatically.
• Work with log files at real time. You can see records that just added by IAS automatically. No log file reopen, no refresh!
• The real time connections view. You can see RRAS connections in real time!
• Real-time monitor. Allows to see current metrics of ias server.
• You can export IAS log records or RRAS connections to XML or CSV file.
• Usage report and user usage report can be created in HTML, XML or CSV formats. The columns of that reports can be customized.
• Command-line options for automate log files processing.
• Additional filter for specifies reports data.
• Cisco-AV-Pair fields support.
• Alerts. Allows to generate action while specified event was occur.

User defined columns. You can create your own columns with any data and use its in views/reports.

Benefits

Fast IASLog File Parsing

Quick iaslog file parsing - one of the requirements when we design IAS Log Viewer. At the each step of development we are remember about this requirement. Look at aproximate ias log file loading time:

iaslog.log file size	Computer with Pentium II 350Mhz processor RAM 256Mb	Computer with Pentium IV 1.8Ghz processor RAM 512Mb
1 Mb	< 1 sec.	< 1 sec.
10 Mb	~ 3 sec.	< 1 sec.
50 Mb	~ 21 sec.	~ 6 sec.
2400 Mb	~ 50 min.	~ 13 min.

Support both IAS-formatted and database-import formats of IAS log file

IAS Log Viewer understands both formats of IAS log files. Without any problems IAS Log Viewer can work with log files where both formats was mixed. IAS Log Viewer determine the format of each line in the RRAS log file on the fly!

Skip bad lines in log file automatically

Sometime RRAS log files can hold bad lines. This lines may appear because of problems in server hardware or software. But this bad lines skipped by IAS Log Viewer automatically! No needs for delete bad lines manually.

Work with log files at real time

IAS Log Viewer work with log files at real-time. You need for open log file only! Any changes in log file immediately shows in IAS Log Viewer! You can run IAS Log Viewer and view connections to RRAS server at real-time!

Work with huge log files

IAS Log Viewer correctly work with huge log files. No any problem for open 2Gb iaslog file and generating reports based on that log file!

Editions

Two editions are available in order to let you choose the most appropriate solution for your business: Standard and Professional.

• The Standard edition is a less expensive and not support some interesting features.
• The Professional edition support all features that IAS Log Viewer provide.

The most important difference between editions:

IAS Log Viewer Feature	Present in Standard edition	Present in Professional edition
Working with log files and folders	Yes	Yes
Working with log files in real time mode	Yes	Yes
Filters in view and reports	Yes	Yes
Cisco-AV-Pair fields support	Yes	Yes
Alerts		Yes
Real-time monitor		Yes
HTML reports	Yes	Yes
XML reports		Yes
CSV reports		Yes
Data export		Yes
User defined columns		Yes