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Corner Bowl Server Manager is a SIEM, an Uptime Monitor, an Event Log Monitor, a Syslog Server, an Azure Active Directory Audit Log Manager, a File Integrity Monitor (FIM), an SSL Certificate Monitor, a Service Monitor and much more. Generate compliance reports and get real-time notifications.

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Windows

IT Operations Manager

Provides great support, pretty easy to use, new features added with no additional cost, low requirements. Great way to stay on top of your critical items like services.

Support team is super responsive, attentive and extremely professional. The first setup is easy with excellent guidance from the team over the phone and/or remote support.

Chief Information Office

I've been very happy with the software and anytime I've needed help there support has quickly helped me out. It helps me meet the PCI Requirements I need to fulfill  monitoring my servers.

Team Lead

Very easy to use at a great price with good support. Weekly reports give us a good idea of what is going on with the machines in the system and it hits all of the auditors check boxes.

IT Systems and Network Administrator

I like the ease of setting up the event log consolidation, directory size monitor, and many more I think I have to explore with this product that will be helpful in monitoring our network devices.

Information Control Manager

Never any production down incidents as we have had with others. The support is fantastic.

Senior Systems Administrator

Provides a wealth of information from our DCs and helps of stay in compliance.

Chief Information Officer

This is a great product; definitely worth your time to try it out.

I.T. Manager

There is so much that has been added, sometimes I get lost when trying to build a new report or trigger.

Security Analyst II

So far, good, one issue so far, but this was solved within a day with support. And so far, what data I needed to gather, I have been able to gather with minimal difficulty.

Systemarchitekt Collaboration Solution Center

Nearly none of them is as capable as this. One competitor we used the last 15 years was quite good.

Associate Director

Feature packed, personalized and prompt customer support, value pricing, all adds up to a great product.

Missing custom range filtering by date for logs.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

I would say about the email alerts integrated with multiple agents associated with various templates. Real-time alerts really help to manage business efficiently.

It can analyse the most complex situations - but *then* you need the know-how (or just let you help). As we want to develop this tool ourselves, it was not a kind of "make it work for us and finish.

Network Architect

It seems to provide some alerting, but setup is difficult.

IT Manager

Easy way to integrate Databases for logging. Group creation by test or asset type (By CPU, Hard disk, ).

Tough to get WMI work with machines that are NAT'd, sometimes requiring a local administrator account for multiple machines can be difficult.

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System Center

The software does what it is supposed to do. Any time I need help with a configuration or just have something simple to tackle, support is there and happy to help.

Corner Bowl Server Manager for the win

A great value-for-money all-in-one solution

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Preston, thanks for the great review.   We are working on some new compliance setup wizards which we plan on releasing by January 2025.

I've had some issues in the past when deploying or updating the product and reached out to the support team for assistance and it really is a unique selling point of this product to be able to speak to [sensitive content hidden] (the developer) who not only knows the product back to front but is also dynamically adding in new features when he sees things that are worth improving. This gives me assurance about the product and future working with Cornerbowl. 

Excellent Product with first class support

Thanks for the review John.  We have video tutorials to help in most areas where there might be some confusion.  Please check them out.

Great product and great support

CornerBowl Software

It's a great tool!  Mike is awesome to work with and very responsive to helping get things configured to exactly what you want.

Thanks for the great review and your patience when you find bugs. 

Great SIEM / Monitoring / Log collection / Alerting solution

Karmin, thanks for the great review.  We just discovered the issue with Sqlite throwing database lock issues and have released a fix!  Sqlite cannot process multiple transactions from different threads.

CornerBowl is very simple and friendly tool for SIEM and FIM solution. Once you are familiar with tools very simple to use.

CornerBowl is very simple and friendly tool for SIEM and FIM solution.Highly recommended

Ansan, thanks for the great review.  If you have any idea's how to make some of the tabs less confusing, please let us know and we can look into making some usability changes.

My Review 

Lots of functionality for the price!

Thanks for the great review.  Look out for new tutorials to help with all the logging options.

Marshall,

Thanks for the review.  If you install our latest build, new hosts are now configured to automatically stay connected.  Thanks for the option request.

Server Manager Great Value 

I have only scratched the surface of what I can do with this software. While initially looking for a low-cost replacement for our previous tool that was primarily used for AD user account monitoring (e.g., new accounts created, privilege escalation, etc.) and some basic auditing of activity on network shares, I found this tool that can do those things and so much more. It can do everything from basic alerts on server free disk space to helping discover & troubleshoot network issues using the syslog server and everything in-between and beyond. The documentation is thorough and accurate. There are also numerous YouTube videos available to help get things configured. The developer's passion for this software is evident, as he's eager to assist with any issues. I look forward to finding more ways to expand my company's usage of CBSM.

Best Value in Monitoring & Log Managment

Thanks for the detailed review, Nathan.  As always, please let us know if there is any functionality you would like to see added to the software.

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I have had this for years.  I keep a tight ship, however there have been alerts that prompted me for further investigation, and and a result my server preventative maintenance has been above reproach.  

One Stop Shop

Wow that's a great review.  Thanks.  Please let me know if there are any new features you would like to see added to the software.

Corner Bowl log Manager makes is great to get the info out of your system.

[SENSITIVE CONTENT] from CornerBowl is awesome! He is extremely attentive and does everything in his power to help his users get the software set up the way they need it. 

Great software with excellent customer support

Thanks for the great review.  To reduce lag from older machines try installing the Management Console on your desktop then remotely connect to the server.  Typically this resolves any lag you might experience when the .Net WPF console loads on a virtual server.

I have a monitoring system in place that provides me with all the event and performance information I need from my systems.

Great product and excellent support

Thanks for the great review.  We will be working on some filter tutorials over the next month.

Automated IT monitoring for servers, endpoints or network devices that service don't need to be restarted in months until you decide to apply free upgrades to include improvements and new features requested by clients that help to all others. 

Fast and reliable IT monitoring application

Fair product that needs refinement

I am so sorry to hear you say support is non-existent.  I just checked our support email history for the last two years and I do not have a single request from anyone at your organization for support.  For others reading, the number on complement we receive is our excellent support.  We offer email and phone support M-F 8-6 Mountain Time.  We do not outsource our support.

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Quick and Effective

Jon, thank you for your review.  The new Event Log Manager product attempts to address the lag often seen in large implementations of Server Manager.

Very easy to use at a great price with good support.  Weekly reports give us a good idea of what is going on with the machines in the system and it hits all of the auditors check boxes.

Steve, thank you for the great review!  Yes WMI can be very difficult and slow at times.  The new Event Log Manager product includes an agent based solution that enables you to filter then push Windows Event Logs to the server using a proprietary binary protocol.  The new software is able to push large Security Event Logs 12 times faster than with WMI.

Nice little gem of a tool to use for companies that don't want to spend more on logging software than the actual applications and systems that need to be monitored.

Best Log Aggregation software for the cost

Thank you for the review!  We have made several changes to the syslog server and are now seeing more than 200% better throughput.  You can now also increase the queue size although with the new updates we are seeing we can actually decrease the maximum queue size and get the same results.

I have been using this for the past 8-10 years (I don't remember when I first started using it) and it has been a lifesaver for me and my customers.  No budget, no infrastructure,  no technical experience then no problem.  I didn't even read instructions when I started using it, just clicking around and looking at what the product does with the built in templates got me going.  

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