Not sure will have to check, it's a windows based system I don't look after.

2008/11/4 Jeremy Melanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Does the ciscoworks server support breaking out the log messages into
> individual files? I have about 400 separate devices sending their SysLog
> messages to a central SysLog server, which is running Syslog-ng.
> Individual directories are created in my repository, based on the
> reverse-dns name of the sending host. I have OSSEC configured to watch
> "/var/log/syslog-ng/*/syslog", which means I don't have to reconfigure
> OSSEC for new SysLog directories.
> If for nothing else, it would save you a HUGE headache if you ever have
> to traverse the SysLogs yourself. I would highly recommend it.
>
> I'm not sure about the internal workings of OSSEC's log poller, but it
> may be safe to assume that you can then have multiple threads watching
> the data, instead of a single thread watching a single file.
> Anyone from the OSSEC Dev team care to comment?
>
>
> Roch wrote:
>> I have a ciscoworks windows server which captures logs from all
>> network devices. Now the concern I have is the syslog file on this
>> server is 15gb. If I include this file in the ossec agent rules I fear
>> it will grind to a halt. Has anyone got experience of this?
>>
>>
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