Log monitoring tool

[logaraman]

Hi Can anyone suggest a third party log monitoring tool on UNIX

Thanks

[Rajesh SB]

Hi,

This could help you.

logrotate-2.5 Log management tool for sysadmins
Description: Logrotate is designed to ease administration of systems that generate large numbers of log files. It allows automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. Each log file may be handled daily, weekly, monthly, or when it grows too large.

You can find this at
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/logrotate-2.5/

Cheers,
Rajesh

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

logrotate takes the logs and archives them so they don't fill up your disk.

Big Brother monitors logs and daemons and such and qualifies as an answer to your question.

http://www.bb4.org/


SEP

[Chan 007]

Hi,

I agree with both and add one more tool for you from BMC

It is called Patrol

Chan

[logaraman]

Thanks for ur guidance

[Don Mallory]

also of note are other open source tools like:

Log watcher http://www.logwatch.org
Swatch (simple watcher) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/swatch/
Logcheck - http://sourceforge.net/projects/sentrytools
Logsurfer+ -
http://www.crypt.gen.nz/logsurfer

For log rotation, also consider:

newsyslog - http://www.weird.com/~woods/projects/newsyslog.html or http://www.balabit.hu/products/syslog-ng/
cronolog - http://cronolog.org/

Lastly, there are also hardware solutions like LogLogic (www.loglogic.com).

Don

[Torsten.]

Another monitoring tool is ISEE (Instant Support Enterprise Edition). This tool is provided by HP. It is checking and monitoring your system and reports issues directly to HP support, if you want.