Operating six nationwide television channels, Czech Television uses Logmanager to ensure seamless service delivery.

Key challenges

To ensure its broadcasting services delivery, Czech Television manages a wide range of IT and database systems, along with an extensive network infrastructure. It operates over 3,000 computers, 250 virtual or physical servers (Windows, Linux, Unix), and more than 200 network devices.

Due to the insufficient log collection and storage capabilities of the legacy solution, Czech Television sought a more affordable, flexible, and centralized log management platform.

Reasons for implementing Logmanager

The customer’s IT department required a centralized log management system to collect security events from critical systems, servers, and applications and enable swift incident response. The solution also required tamper-proof log storage accessible only to authorized staff, ensuring logs could not be altered by administrators or users.

It was also essential to have a graphical interface with predefined dashboards and possibility to quickly search data, including:

  • System changes made by administrators,
  • Newly created Microsoft Active Directory accounts within a specific period,
  • Changes in user access rights to specific files or folders,
  • Monitoring of privileged accounts, shared accounts, and configuration changes.

Tamper-proof storage and defined retention periods are among the most common IT compliance requirements, which dictate what has to be logged and for how long.

Impactful results 

Czech Television values user-friendly interface, performance, and comprehensive features of Logmanager, which ultimately save time in diagnostics and issue resolution.

The seamless integration with Microsoft and other platforms allows Czech Television to track activity and events from any active network devices, security solutions, operating systems, and applications.

ICT administrators specifically value Logmanager for the following:

  • Event processing from predefined log sources across applications, operating systems, and network hardware.
  • Flexibility of the solution, allowing easy integration also with systems not directly supported by the manufacturer.
  • The ability to collect events in RAW and Syslog formats.
  • Native Windows Agent for collecting unmodified events from Windows environments.
  • Filtering of incoming and stored messages.
  • Centralized log consolidation.
  • Unified search across all data and devices without the need to use programming language
  • Graphical event visualization – dashboards.
  • Visualization of top events over a set period.
  • Ability to save filters and search results for future use.
  • Predefined reporting templates with options for customization and creating new views.
  • The ability to query external monitoring systems for further alert processing and threshold management.
  • An easy-to-use web console for administration.

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