AND you need something that can read the million more log files that don't get pumped into syslog or Event Log. One way to mitigate that though is to get a file2syslog tool and pump those into syslog.
The thing is, 99% of the interesting stuff is not in /var/log/messages or Event Log. It's in $apphome/logs/error.log. John, you've debugged a Tomcat app before. You know what I mean. :) -- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration Scott Harney wrote: > Dustin Puryear wrote: >> Seriously, if you have more than just UNIX syslog logging needs, just >> doing a syslog server via Cygwin isn't going to get you very far. >> > Right. you need something that will export Windows Event viewer "events" > to syslog messages that can be shipped to a local (Cygwin) or remote > (linux) syslog server. >> -- >> Puryear Information Technology, LLC >> Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 >> http://www.puryear-it.com >> >> Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" >> http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices >> >> Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration >> >> >> John Hebert wrote: >> >>> Woot! Thanks! >>> >>> Will try to configure it over the next few days and will the list know >>> how it works. >>> >>> John Hebert >>> >>> ----- Original Message ---- >>> From: Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 1:48:39 PM >>> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] open source tools for centralized logging? >>> >>> Cygwin to the rescue! >>> >>> http://mirror.calvin.edu/cygwin/release/syslog-ng/ >>> >>> Looks like there is a recent tarball there dated 1/14/08. >>> >>> On Jan 17, 2008 12:46 PM, John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >>> >>> Howdy, >>> >>> We have a mixed UNIX and Microsoft Windows environment. We would >>> like to centralize logging for all servers (and hopefully SNMP) on >>> one server. However, there is only one UNIX admin (me) with a few >>> servers for a small group and four Windows admins handling many >>> servers for the entire network, so it makes more sense to use a >>> Windows server for keeping these logs. >>> >>> Does anyone know or use a good open source application for >>> centralized logging that runs on (*gasp*) Windows? >>> >>> It would be great if syslog-ng ran on Windows, but it does not. :( >>> There is a forwarding agent for syslog-ng that runs on Windows, but >>> that does not fit our requirements. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> John Hebert >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ____________________________________________________________________________________ >>> Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. >>> http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> General mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! >>> Search. >>> <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51734/*http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> General mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
