The biggest problem (IHMO) is the difficulty of choosing the one that best fits what you expect. One can centralized every log (NT, Unix, SMNP, Logs files,...) on different products. One I know works very well is Event Log Monitor (http://www.tntsoftware.com). I have centralized almost all my logs with this product on Windows NT. I plan to try the other way, centralize on UNIX, but again the difficulty is to do the right selection, because trying everything will be too time consuming. Best regards, Victor Fernandes Frank Solomon wrote: > > Greetings: > > We're currently working on developing a central syslog strategy. > > Unix boxes seem to be very little problem. We've got every kind there is. . . > > We think we might be able to figure out how to trim out the garbage from > our firewall boxes; although this hasn't been proven yet. > > We might even be able to integrate our Cisco IDS stuff, if we can ever get > that working. . .we're not sure. > > But we're curious how others have solved the centralization of logs from > other kinds of systems. Specifically, Windows2000 or NT Servers, Novell > Servers running in the NDS environment, and IBM Mainframes running MVS. > > Right now we're experimenting with some free syslog client software called > Backlog for NT. But, it seems kind of poor in that it doesn't set the > Facility or Priority of the log messages dynamically based on the content > of the NT Event log message. What's better? Free or otherwise. > > We're at a bit of a loss on Netware; it looks like the "syslog" it has > doesn't log remotely? Or does it? Also, apparently a lot of the data gets > squirrelled away in the NDS (directory). Is there something that can > forward this stuff in real time to a syslog daemon somewhere? What are > others doing? > > The mainframe guys laughed at me when I suggested we might want them to > forward logs to a central server. MVS when it impersonates Unix does have > a syslog facility. But, it doesn't look like much useful stuff comes out > of it. Is there something that makes the console log available via > syslog? What about ACF2 logs? Any hope here? Once again, what are others > doing? > > Certainly, we could buy some big expensive package from Pentasafe or IBM; > but, we'd like to avoid that if we could, and work things into a syslog > environment. > > Thanks in advance, > > Frank > > ***************************************** > Frank Solomon > University of Kentucky > http://www.franksolomon.net > > A good mechanic only needs two tools: Duct tape and WD40. > WD40 to make things go; and duct tape to make them stop. > --unknown > ***************************************** > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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