Introduction

VOSS Insights Windows Forwarder (the Forwarder) is an application that runs on a Windows server or workstation and monitors the system activity.

Information is passed along to the primary and/or secondary Forwarder indexing engine.

The Forwarder is an NT service and is supposed to start automatically each time the operating system is started.

The Forwarder is capable of monitoring any activity, either directly by watching for Registry changes, SNMP traps, event logs, Performance counters, and application logs, or indirectly by executing commands and SQL queries for any ODBC compliant database.