topic Re: How manage syslog in Operating System - HP-UX

How manage syslog

PCIS — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:03:53 GMT

Hello,

Do you use a tool to manage your syslog like logwatch on linux.
A usefull tool very simple.

I'm interested about your opinion on this subject.

Regards.

Nicolas WOOD

Re: How manage syslog

Kenan Erdey — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:22:23 GMT

Hi,

i am redirecting syslogs to syslog-ng server. and on this server i am running php-syslog-ng. with this web interface i am watching and advanced searching in logs.

Kenan.

Re: How manage syslog

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:52:58 GMT

Shalom,

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/logrotate-2.5/

It works just like Linux.

I write a cron job to trim them once in a while.

cp /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log /logs/
> /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

SEP

Re: How manage syslog

Rita C Workman — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:53:14 GMT

By using the /etc/syslog.conf file you can redirect where you want "specific levels of alerts" to report - i.e. to a central server.

On the central server that gets all the more serious alerts you can set up a simple script that checks the log and sends an email alert reporting the message to whoever you want to get that message. Then cron the script so it keeps you updated.
Remember to clean up or copy elsewhere all messages sent, so they don't keep repeating.

Rgrds,
Rita

Re: How manage syslog

Tim Nelson — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:24:26 GMT

Wrote my own logwatch. A ksh script of maybe 30 lines or so.

Simply takes note of the number of lines in syslog since last run, emails new entries minus a list of ignore files.

Re: How manage syslog

PCIS — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:20:52 GMT

Thank you all,

I will try php-syslog-ng, on a linux server with syslog-ng.

Thank you for your help

Regards

Nicolas