syslog check tools - which one?

[Laszlo Csizmadia]

I have lot of HPUX boxes and want to have a better log check utility than now (basic shell script). I know that there are a lot: swatch, logcheck, logsurfer, logrider, etc.
Which one to choose? Does anybody have experiences on this? Is HP providing a similar tool in .depot?
My aim is to get alerted (email) if unusal even logged in log files.

Any idea will be appreciated.

[Kevin Lamb_2]

Hi,

The ones I have worked with were BMC Patrol and CA ServiceCentre, both these are purchased products and can be tailored to page and e-mail on errors showing up on a server.

I am not sure of any freebie tools that would do this unless you stick to scripting it yourself.

Kev

"I'd rather be flying"

[Laszlo Csizmadia]

I would prefer free stuff. GPL or similar.

[Kevin Lamb_2]

Hi,

You could give Big Brother a try

http://bb4.com/

Kev

"I'd rather be flying"

[Piergiacomo Perini]

have a look at

http://download.com.com/3302-2094-3898017.html

it's name is "Alert Monitor".

Regards

[Donny Jekels]

I wrote this perl script to watch our syslog.log.

You will need to reroute all your hp-ux boxes to log to a central log server.

*.info,mail.none @logserver

should be added to /etc/syslog.conf on the client systems, but not on the log server itself.

then run this tool as a daemon.
tested and work in production environment.
just modify the email addresses.

life free or die
Donny

[Camel_1]

I think ITO is the best product ...