Re: [loganalysis] any experience with parsers on nokia/ipso platform

From: Martin.Lawrence@GECITS-EU.COM
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 03:56:09 PDT

  • Next message: Sweth Chandramouli: "Re: [loganalysis] any experience with parsers on nokia/ipso platform"

    in principle, yes, we would love to have that kind of flexibility
    
    however, we have a large number of small firewalls and vpn-appliances to
    manage
    using a local loghost for each firewall/vpn-appliance would be too costly
    
    and logging it over the internet is ruled out - neither nokia nor check
    point encrypt their log-data
    plus, some of these devices are attached via 64kbit, which could be
    seriously swamped by log-data
    
    so we'll try to get swatch to work (i've dropped todd atkins a mail)
    if we can't get it to work, we'll try using systemwatch by open service
    it can do log file analysis and many other things - however, it is somewhat
    pricy
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    tbird@precision-guesswork.com on 21.08.2001 17:20:24
    
    To:     Martin.Lawrence@gecits-eu.com
    cc:     loganalysisat_private
    Subject:  Re: [loganalysis] any experience with parsers on nokia/ipso
            platform
                                                                                
                                                                                
     -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
    
    
    
    Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to log the IPSO data
    to a remote loghost, and use that for your processing?
    You wouldn't be limited by the like of compilers, and you
    wouldn't be impacting the performance of your firewall
    or IDS by using it as a data processing machine as well.
    
    Seems like an easier answer than trying to make Perl and
    swatch work on a stripped down operating system.
    
    On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 Martin.Lawrence@gecits-eu.com wrote:
    
    > Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 19:16:44 +0100
    > From: Martin.Lawrence@gecits-eu.com
    > To: loganalysisat_private
    > Subject: [loganalysis] any experience with parsers on nokia/ipso platform
    >
    > does anyone have any experience with logfile parsers on the nokia / ipso
    > plaform ?
    > since nokia doesn't allow users to compile anything on ipso, we are
    limited
    > to shellscript and perl
    >
    > swatch running on perl sound like a fine option
    > however, i found very little information on anybody actively using swatch
    > on ipso
    >  - has anyone ever tried this ?
    >  - if so, what is your experience ?
    >  - in particular, since perl for ipso was built with the ipso 3.1
    libraries
    > - does anyone know if it runs on 3.2/3.3/3.4 ?
    >  - does anyone know if nokia's perl runs on the ip 110 ?
    >
    >
    > Kind regards
    >
    > Martin Lawrence
    > GE CompuNet Muenchen
    > Solution Leader IT Security
    > Hoerselbergstrasse 7, 81677 Muenchen, Germany
    > Phone: 089 / 45 712-536, Fax: 089 / 45 712-332, Mobile: +49 (0) 172 - 824
    > 78 50
    > Internet: Martin.Lawrence @ gecits-eu.com
    > Visit us on the Internet: http://www.gecits-eu.com
    >
    >
    > This email is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient,
    > you must not disclose or use the information contained in it.
    > If you have received this mail in error, please tell us
    > immediately by return email and delete the document.
    >
    >
    >
    > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
    > To unsubscribe, e-mail: loganalysis-unsubscribeat_private
    > For additional commands, e-mail: loganalysis-helpat_private
    >
    
    VPN:  http://kubarb.phsx.ukans.edu/~tbird/vpn.html
    life: http://kubarb.phsx.ukans.edu/~tbird
    work: http://www.counterpane.com
    
    
    
    
    
    
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------
    To unsubscribe, e-mail: loganalysis-unsubscribeat_private
    For additional commands, e-mail: loganalysis-helpat_private
    



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Wed Aug 22 2001 - 09:24:26 PDT