HI Tina, How about this analogy: Many buildings today have a set of closed-circuit security cameras set up around their perimeter. These cameras display the activity they are observing at some number of TV screens in a central monitoring area. Would it make sense to NOT have someone watching these TV screens for suspect activity or someone trying to break in? No, of course not. There is/are security professional(s) watching the screens to catch the nefarious activity and prevent loss of property of life. Similarly, do it make sense to NOT have somebody reading the logs to see if nefarious actvity is going on. No, of course not. Same melody in both cases, just different word to the music... Best Regards, Gary Smith -----Original Message----- From: Tina Bird [mailto:tbird@precision-guesswork.com] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 7:27 PM To: loganalysisat_private Subject: [loganalysis] why read your logs? that ought to cause a bit of a rumpus. i've been tasked with giving a presentation to a group of manager types who do not have our understanding of the importance of staffing for log monitoring. i've got a couple of analogies to use for them -- things like asking how many of them balance their checkbooks or read their credit card statements -- but figured that this group might have an idea or two of how to convince a non-technie (or a new sys admin) of how important this is... any ideas? thanks -- tbird LogAnalysis: http://kubarb.phsx.ukans.edu/~tbird/log-analysis.html 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: loganalysis-unsubscribeat_private For additional commands, e-mail: loganalysis-helpat_private
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