Re: syslog management

From: Rich Hart (rich.hart@qwest.com)
Date: 06/19/02 

From: Rich Hart <rich.hart@qwest.com>
To: "Wang, Jack" <Wang@Security-Card.com>
Date: 19 Jun 2002 11:26:00 -0600

checkout syslog-ng

http://www.balabit.hu/static/syslog-ng/reference/book1.html

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 09:05, Wang, Jack wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> Is there a good software to manage the huge amount of syslog generated by
> Network equipment, IDS etc?
>
> I have tested Kiwi syslog, winsyslog, syslogd.exe etc. In my opinion, the
> ideal one should be as following:
>
> --able to classify the log according to source
> --able to save into file (.txt, or db)
> --able to set up the rows of display
> --able to send email message
>
> Or any further comments will be appreciated.
>
> Best Regards,
> Jack
> 

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