UNIX system logs

[David Land]

Two questions:

1) Does anyone know if HP has a monitoring tool that can monitor certain ports or sockets or incoming users?

2) Is there a configuration file on UNIX that can be modified to monitor/write more information to the syslog file?

[Aashique]

Hi,
You can check the syslog.log from /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

check the following links:
http://www.netperf.org/netperf/NetperfPage.html
http://www.managementsoftware.hp.com/products/nnm/index.html

Thanks & Regards
Aashique

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

1) In what way? I think you need to be a bit more specific about what you are looking for. With Unix there is almost always more than one way to accomplish almost anything your heart desires. :)

2) This really depends on the process generating the messages. The syslog daemon only receives the messages that other processes generate. If you need more information written to the syslog, see if your process can accommodate you.

The one exception to this may be the syslog "facilities" (info, alert, emerg, etc.). The behavior of messages coming into syslog at the various facility levels is configurable in /etc/syslogd.conf.

By default *.info gets logged to syslog.log, so you should get ALL messages that syslog intercepts.

More more information on syslog.conf configuration see the man pages for syslog and syslogd.

[David Land]

Patrick, your #2 answer is dead on.

As for #1, take for instance, a java connection from a Windows server to my UNIX server. Earlier today the web programmers sent a message saying they were receiving java.net.SocketException errors. So in this case I wanted to find a way to monitor those incomming connections using a HP monitor or somehow capture it in the syslog.log file.

[Patrick Wallek]

I'm not sure about the java monitoring. Hopefully someone else will have some ideas for you.


The only java I monitor is the amount in my IV, er... rather coffee cup, in the mornings. ;)