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

[Andrew Baudouin]

How many commercial products do this?

On Jan 17, 2008 3:58 PM, Scott Harney <scotth at scottharney.com> 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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> 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> <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> <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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