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Mark Shields wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Alan McKinnon |
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> <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com <mailto:alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Does anyone have decent experience with sysloggers other than |
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> syslog-ng, and |
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> be willing to share experiences? |
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> I'm especially interested in some of the advanced features of |
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> syslog-ng |
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> Premium from Balabit.com (based on and extending their open source |
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> version): |
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> SSL-encrypted traffic over the network |
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> Disk-based buffering on the client |
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> Windows agents |
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> Timezone aware (which syslog doesn't do and syslog-ng only partially) |
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> Encrypted disk files |
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> Filter, parse and rewrite incoming logs (vital if you need the |
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> auth log over |
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> here and the password field stored over there, without jumping |
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> through hoops |
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> first) |
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> High scalability - 2000 Cisco devices and 200+ servers to start, |
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> distributed |
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> country wide |
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> -- |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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> syslog-ng is the de facto standard. Metalog is fine for desktops, but |
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> I use syslog-ng on all my servers. Nearly all programs that can |
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> process log files are compatible with it. |
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> -- |
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> - Mark Shields |
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Same here. I do wish it would fill my log full of dups tho. Sometimes |
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my DVD thinks there is media in there and it is trying to read it when |
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it is empty. Since it does this every two seconds, it can create a HUGE |
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messages file in a hurry. logrotate helps with this but still, no need |
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doing the same line hundreds of thousands of times. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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P. S. Now some guru tell me that it can be told not to do that. :/ |
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