[logs] The right log analysis tool

From: tilayiaat_private
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 15:06:26 PST

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    This is my first day in the loga analysis world so don't 
    be too harsh on me.
    
    My requirement is to have a central log repository that 
    will collect log data from all the systems , web 
    servers and firewalls on our network. That will be a  
    lot of data since we have about six web servers, 
    couple of firewalls and 10 UNIX servers. I have to 
    develop a system that does an analysis on the data 
    that is collected from all the different sources. In that 
    analysis I should be able to determine if someone's 
    trying to hack in or intrude our network or any system 
    on that. I need to generate alerts based on that.
    
    My question is, how much of what I need to do can be 
    accomplished by packages already out there and 
    how much will I need to code myself.
    
    Also, do logs have a standard in the way applications 
    write to them so that I know how to parse them and 
    have an idea of all possible information I can gleam 
    from them.
    
    Thanks,
    JT.
    
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