Re: [logs] alert on syslog events

From: Jethro R Binks (jethro.binks@private)
Date: Tue Oct 19 2004 - 07:08:15 PDT


On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Bill Rhodes wrote:

> You might try Oak:
> 
> <http://www.ktools.org/oak.html>
> 
> It's a daemon that can be used to monitor syslog messages and notify
> people about potential problems in a variety of ways.  It can send
> summaries of events over some period of time, as well as immediate emails
> for critical events.

"Simple Event Correlator" is another good one.  Perl-based, it is very 
flexible.  Which also means it can get quite complicated ... but we use it 
in a very simplistic fasion currently and it is very handy.

Jethro.

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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services
University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

> -B
> 
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, shawn reed wrote:
> 
> > Any recommendations for generating email alerts from syslog events?
> >
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