Tina's page has an awfull lot of helpful information on the topic : http://www.counterpane.com/log-analysis.html Jacques THOMAS jamie rishaw wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > I'd like to get some input from people who are currently running a > centralized logging environment with multiple (and theoretically multi- > platform) OS's logging to one (or multiple) syslog hosts. > > Getting logging down, and getting hosts to log to a central server was > the easy part. It's pretty nifty, one place to go, and no more /var > fill ups :-) however, it's now time to go to the next step. > > What (presumedly freeware/opensource/open-dev) programs, home brew > perl madness, commercialware, etc, are people using for their log analysis? > > I think there will be two schools of solutions here, correct me if I'm > missing or off topic: > > 1) Real-Time monitors to "tail" output and generate alerts/flags based > on certain situations or checkpoints/markers, and > > 2) Daily log parsing for reports, trend analysis, and longer term > watching > > Program names are fine to spew back, but input on actual use of these > utilities, thoughts, etc, would help. > > And if it turns up zero, perhaps we can start a project of our own :) > > Thanks in advance for input. I'm hoping I'm not the only one out here > in the same boat. > > jamie > -- > jamie rishaw <jamieat_private> > sr. wan/unix engineer/ninja // playboy enterprises inc. > [opinions stated are mine, and are not necessarily those of the bunny] > > "UNIX was not designed to stop people from doing stupid things, because > that would also stop them from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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