On 2013-11-07, Predrag Punosevac <[email protected]> wrote: > I am soliciting opinions and some guidance on few very general sys admin > questions. > > 1. What do people in general use to parse large amount of log files > received in the form of e-mails? security/logsurfer and similar. I have > seen some in the ports tree.
Logs received in the form of emails? not sure... most things like this usually prefer syslog or similar. > 2. I just learned about www/racktables but it seems rather > complicated. Are there some simpler tools with similar functionality > which do not involve data bases and web interfaces. www/rackmonkey is simpler (which makes it rather restricted, but maybe easier to get into..), though it does also have a web interface, and it does use a database (how would you write this type of program without some kind of database anyway? easier to use SQL than some homemade flat-file thing). Learning basic SQL is definitely a useful thing for a sysadmin IMO. > 3. Are there any advantages of graphics/dia over general purposes > vectorial graphics programs like graphics/inkscape for drawing network > topology. I normally either use tgif (not a million miles from xfig, but I prefer it), or abuse gns3 for this.. I tried dia once but it ate my network map (saved it but wasn't able to reload it) which put me off trying it again - though it has probably improved since then. Real hardcore admins might prefer graphviz though :)
