If this is a hosted solution, like one of the XEN's at GoDaddy, or another
solution where you actually don't have command line access, they should be able
to do your monitoring, but if this is a solution to an issue with their
performance or throughput costs, it's going to be throwing bad effort after
good.
Change providers, get a portion of a rack or get a complete professional
systems administration re-architectural look. There are real cheap and s-hexy
ways to setup your systems.
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:51:00 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Server Logs
To: [email protected]
Thanks for all the pointers!
This is a simple setup. One store on one server and an informational site and
a small store on the other. The third is for backups and fail over.
While I have been messing with Linux for over 10 years I feel I'm not quite
there when it comes to "managing" a server. These are actually managed servers
however I have to do stuff like add or remove users... once in a while
configure a virtual host.... Lately I've been asked questions about why the
server is slower than other times and if there is anything going on out of the
ordinary.
I've looked through the HTTPD logs and I think it was /var/log/messages and
something else that I do not now recall. Beyond that I'm not sure what else I
would do.
I do appreciate everyones help!!
------------------------
Keith
Smith
--- On Fri, 3/27/09, Lisa Kachold <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Lisa Kachold <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Server Logs
To: [email protected]
Date: Friday, March 27, 2009, 1:42 PM
You might just benefit from installing awstats, which will give you a nice log
platform.
Awstats can be a security risk, but in order to really see what's happening,
awstats is great.
Your logs can be heavily configured in many ways, and it's going to depend on
which LAMP platform you built and what you need to watch.
A log retention policy is an important item for Systems Administration, and
especially for web systems.
If your cluster is load balanced, you want to see which server is taking what
load.
You can export your log location and mount that location for the awstats to
read.
While you can laboriously setup extended headers, either of two classic types
of extended or standard apache logs, awstats is still going to give you at a
glance error 404, page not found, 302 redirects, referrers, spiders and more in
eye glazy clear style.
Obnosis | (503)754-4452
PLUG Linux Security Labs 2nd Saturday Each mo...@noon - 3PM
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:28:27 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Server Logs
keith smith wrote:
Hi,
I am a programmer so my server admin skills are on the basic end. I
have been tasked with managing several LAMP servers running CentOS.
I'm looking for a simple reference that will tell me what logs to look
at, how often to look at them, and what to be looking for.
Thanks in advance for your help!
You can automate this somewhat by installing and configuring "logwatch"
(yum install logwatch). It will run periodically and email you any
interesting things that happened with the logs.
-Charles
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