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I am looking for useful Event Log Monitoring software, as well as any software tools to scan open ports on our web server running Microsoft Server 2003 R2 and SQL Standard 2005. &nbsp;We want to monitor hack attempts as well as make the server as tight as possible.
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I am looking for useful Event Log Monitoring software, as well as any software tools to scan open ports on our web server running Microsoft Server 2003 R2 and SQL Standard 2005.  We want to monitor hack attempts as well as make the server as tight as possible.

Event Log Monitoring / Port Monitoring Software?

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