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

[Dustin Puryear]

Can do what exactly? syslog or "more" than syslog?

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Andrew Baudouin wrote:
> How many commercial products do this?
> 
> On Jan 17, 2008 3:58 PM, Scott Harney <scotth at scottharney.com 
> <mailto: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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>>     Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414
>>     http://www.puryear-it.com
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>>     Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers"
>>        http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices
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>>     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> <mailto:andrewmb at gmail.com>
>>>     To: general at brlug.net <mailto: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> 
>>>     <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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