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

[John Hebert]

Hmmm. Getting emails out of order.

In any case, I meant to say that we want to collect Windows and UNIX logs and SNMP events to one server.

I forgot that we have Cacti installed (http://www.cacti.net) though it isn't used much. It already gathers SNMP events to MySQL and there is a plugin to display syslog data from MySQL

The only unknown is how well syslog-ng runs under Cygwin.

John Hebert

----- Original Message ----
From: Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:22:38 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] open source tools for centralized logging?


Yeah, you don't want JUST an SNMP server. That's just a small piece of 
the puzzle. Splunk is good, like Ronnie said.

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John Hebert 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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