Hi Trevor,

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 09:02, Trevor Warren wrote:

>   In my network consisting of purely
> AIX/Gnu-Linux/HP-UX i have to provide a single console
> for monitoring all logs and trigger an alert/alarm as
> soon as a particular message comes up in the logs.
> These logs will be both system and application logs
> and hence the messages to be tracked has to be
> customisable.

Syslog on GNU/Linux support remote logging.

>From syslogd man page

-r      This option will enable the facility to receive message from the
        network using an internet domain socket with the syslog  service
        (see  services(5)). The default is to not receive any messages
        from the network.

So on your log (central) server, you can start syslogd with above
option.

On the clients from where you want to collect logs, you would possibly give
following entry in syslog.conf

>From syslog.conf man page

        *.*             @finlandia

        This rule would redirect all messages to a remote host  called
        finlandia. This is useful especially in a cluster of machines
        where all syslog messages will be stored on only one machine.

>   Lemme know if someone has had this problem solved
> before or has any inkling of what appln we can make
> use of.

As for the an application which does not you syslog for logging, you
have to consult that application's documentation.

I have no clue about other OS except GNU/Linux.

> Trevor

HTH
With regards,
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