topic Re: Graphical Syslog Viewer. in Operating System - HP-UX

Graphical Syslog Viewer.

Derek Whigham_1 — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:57:55 GMT

I am looking for a Graphical Syslog Viewer for HP-UX. I am looking to uses this on our central syslog server.

Anybody got recommendation. Opensource is fine.

Re: Graphical Syslog Viewer.

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:23:55 GMT

Well since syslog.log is nothing but a text file then any graphical text editor will do the job for the question as you asked it. Three that spring to mind instantly at dtpad, GXedit, and cooledit. (The last two are available from any of the HP-UX Porting Centre's). However, a much better answer is Openview Operations's Message Browser. Using OV/O, messages from diverse sources (including syslog, SNMP traps, ... ) and from many hosts are gathered and centrally displayed. There are filters you can employ to separate wheat from chaff. OV/O or similar products is really the way to manage many hosts. OV/O will also allow you to handle routine tasks such as running low on disk space automatically --- including cleaning up and then extending a filesystem automatically.

Re: Graphical Syslog Viewer.

spex — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:39:00 GMT

On a semi-related note, just yesterday, I came across a perl script that emulates a "tail -f" on multiple files. It's called logtail and is available here:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/logtail/

It requires Perl 4.0, patch level 36.

PCS

Re: Graphical Syslog Viewer.

inventsekar_1 — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:03:47 GMT

Openview Operations mainly for infrastructure management. it does lot of other things also. It costs much. so plan accordingly.
the other three dtpad, GXedit, and cooledit can serve the required purpose alone.

Re: Graphical Syslog Viewer.

PeterWolfe — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:37:43 GMT

Starting with the 11i V2 December 05 release
of HP-UX there a simple web based syslog viewer
integrated into the System Management Homepage.
This viewer is part of the Distributed Systems Administration Utilities. It
will find /var/adm/syslog/ logs by default
See /etc/rc.config.d/syslog-ng
for configuration variables to point
it at directories with additional log files.

Re: Graphical Syslog Viewer.

Derek Whigham_1 — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:56:20 GMT

Thanks for the Responses , This gives me some options to look at.

Re: Graphical Syslog Viewer.

Derek Whigham_1 — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:58:07 GMT

Thanks Againg