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

[Dustin Puryear]

AND you need something that can read the million more log files that 
don't get pumped into syslog or Event Log. One way to mitigate that 
though is to get a file2syslog tool and pump those into syslog.

The thing is, 99% of the interesting stuff is not in /var/log/messages 
or Event Log. It's in $apphome/logs/error.log.

John, you've debugged a Tomcat app before. You know what I mean. :)

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Scott Harney wrote:
> Dustin Puryear wrote:
>> 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.
>>   
> Right. you need something that will export Windows Event viewer "events" 
> to syslog messages that can be shipped to a local (Cygwin) or remote 
> (linux) syslog server.
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>> Puryear Information Technology, LLC
>> Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414
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>> Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers"
>>    http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices
>>
>> Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration
>>
>>
>> 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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