[CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation
Given my experience in Linux is limited currently, what do you guys use to monitor logs such as 'messages' on your centos servers? I had a hardware failure that happened in between me manually looking (of course...). I would hope it might have a some features to email critical issues etc... Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Given my experience in Linux is limited currently, what do you guys use to monitor logs such as `messages' on your centos servers? I had a hardware failure that happened in between me manually looking (of course...). I would hope it might have a some features to email critical issues etc... We use swatch to monitor various things, mainly security related. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 Rights is a fictional abstraction. No one has ``Rights'', neither machines nor flesh-and-blood. Persons... have opportunities, not rights, which they use or do not use. -- Lazarus Long ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Given my experience in Linux is limited currently, what do you guys use to monitor logs such as ‘messages’ on your centos servers? I had a hardware failure that happened in between me manually looking (of course…). I would hope it might have a some features to email critical issues etc… Depends on if you're monitoring just one server or a bunch. I'd google for these things: LogWatch epylog big syster oak Then there's various things that read syslog and can read reports for you. Google around for things like syslog-ng, nagios, zenoss, whatnot, if you're looking at larger scope. Jed ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation
Bill Campbell wrote: Given my experience in Linux is limited currently, what do you guys use to monitor logs such as `messages' on your centos servers? I had a hardware failure that happened in between me manually looking (of course...). I would hope it might have a some features to email critical issues etc... We use swatch to monitor various things, mainly security related. Did you have to do something to it to make it work with centos? I have one running on a machine that collects a lot of router syslogs and it has the annoying habit of resending a bunch of old notifications whenever a new one is noticed. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: Given my experience in Linux is limited currently, what do you guys use to monitor logs such as `messages' on your centos servers? I had a hardware failure that happened in between me manually looking (of course...). I would hope it might have a some features to email critical issues etc... We use swatch to monitor various things, mainly security related. Did you have to do something to it to make it work with centos? I have one running on a machine that collects a lot of router syslogs and it has the annoying habit of resending a bunch of old notifications whenever a new one is noticed. Not really. Swatch is pretty straightforward perl, using gnu-tail to watch the end of log file(s). The only issue I've seen is that it will sometimes report old things on occassion when starting if there are matching entries near the end of the files. One place where I used this is on an openldap server that would occassionally get into a ``too many open files'' situation, and swatch would call a routine that restarted slapd when this happened. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 Capitalism works primarily because most of the ways that a company can be scum end up being extremely bad for business when there's working competition. -rra ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
