Splunk has their deployment server which would allow you to manage all the
deployed forwarders centrally.  Might be worth a look over.

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Michael Lubinski <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm just trying to find the best way to provide a Splunk style service but
> it would be really nice to be able to manage all of them through a
> centralized console. We have looked at products like Kaseya or Manage Engine
> but its a hard sell to management for them to drop the investment with no
> body buying it right away.
>
> Advice anyone?
>
> Yes were talking about security on a budget here, oohohh yeah..
>
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Bojan Zdrnja (SANS ISC) <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Michael,
>>
>> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Michael Lubinski
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Has anyone ever tried using Splunk like in a managed services
>> environment.
>> > Meaning a bunch of your customers Splunk servers send data back to a
>> main
>> > Splunk server through a tunnel of some sorts.
>> > Replace Splunk == your product of choice
>>
>> <disclosure>
>> My company is a Splunk partner.
>> </disclosure>
>>
>> Well, if you have a Splunk forwarder running it can send logs directly
>> over an SSL connection. However, that would require all hosts to be
>> able to connect to your main indexer which is probably something the
>> customer(s) won't like.
>>
>> That being said - you have zillion options with Splunk. You can run an
>> indexer at each customer's site and then just search through logs from
>> your central site. Or, you can have Splunk agents send logs to another
>> forwarder which then sends logs to your site - that way, only 1 server
>> needs to be able to connect to your site.
>>
>> Finally, you can tunnel this traffic through SSH or whatever you want ...
>>
>> Hope this helps, shoot if you have more questions.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bojan
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