[brlug-general] open source tools for centralized logging?

[Dustin Puryear]

Seriously, if you have more than just UNIX syslog logging needs, just 
doing a syslog server via Cygwin isn't going to get you very far.

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John Hebert wrote:
> Woot! Thanks!
> 
> Will try to configure it over the next few days and will the list know 
> how it works.
> 
> John Hebert
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Andrew Baudouin <andrewmb at gmail.com>
> To: general at brlug.net
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 1:48:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] open source tools for centralized logging?
> 
> Cygwin to the rescue!
> 
> http://mirror.calvin.edu/cygwin/release/syslog-ng/
> 
> Looks like there is a recent tarball there dated 1/14/08.
> 
> On Jan 17, 2008 12:46 PM, John Hebert <johnahebert at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:johnahebert at yahoo.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Howdy,
> 
>     We have a mixed UNIX and Microsoft Windows environment. We would
>     like to centralize logging for all servers (and hopefully SNMP) on
>     one server. However, there is only one UNIX admin (me) with a few
>     servers for a small group and four Windows admins handling many
>     servers for the entire network, so it makes more sense to use a
>     Windows server for keeping these logs.
> 
>     Does anyone know or use a good open source application for
>     centralized logging that runs on (*gasp*) Windows?
> 
>     It would be great if syslog-ng ran on Windows, but it does not. :(
>      There is a forwarding agent for syslog-ng that runs on Windows, but
>     that does not fit our requirements.
> 
>     Thanks,
>     John Hebert
> 
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