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On Wednesday 17 June 2009 16:33:39 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>wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > |
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> > Does anyone have decent experience with sysloggers other than syslog-ng, |
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> > and |
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> > be willing to share experiences? |
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> > |
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> > I'm especially interested in some of the advanced features of 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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> > |
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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 auth log |
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> > over |
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> > here and the password field stored over there, without jumping through |
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> > 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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> > -- |
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> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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> |
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> syslog-ng is the de facto standard. Metalog is fine for desktops, but I |
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> use syslog-ng on all my servers. Nearly all programs that can process log |
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> files are compatible with it. |
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I can't argue with that. I just get a little paranoid about auth logs being |
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sent (with credentials) over partially-open networks, hence the attraction of |
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encrypted traffic |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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