I've been eyeing rsyslogd + phplogcon as an open source alternative to
Splunk, but haven't had the time to play with it yet.

http://www.rsyslog.com/ and http://www.phplogcon.org/

If you end up using them let me know, I'd be interested to hear about it.

Brandon

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Stefan Schulte <[email protected]>wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I'm searching for a central syslogserver with webaccess. The messages
> should be stored in a database (oracle would be great). The server should
> have the following features:
>
> - delete old messages after a period of time (errors and warnings should
> live longer than notifications)
> - drop certain messages I dont want to store in the database
> - filter messages by source and severity
> - search in messages
> - save searches
> - muli-user capability
>
> As a first step I just want to capture logs from a Cisco ASA (VPN Server)
> to troubleshoot when a user failed to establish a vpn-connection to the LAN
> (eg unstable internet connection, wrong or expired certificate) but I want
> to be able to add more syslogsources in the future.
>
> I already tested kiwisyslog + sawmill but sawmill seems to be more a
> reporting tool. The problem with reports is, that some messages generated by
> the ASA device are actually related to a user but doesnt have its name in
> the message text. So if i get
> "Certificate chain failed validation. Certificate chain is either invalid
> or not authorized"
> i need to look at the following message
> "Group = XXX, IP = x.x.x.x, Peer Certificate authentication failed: General
> Error to know whose certificate was invalid."
>
> Thats why I want to search through the raw logs rather than a reporting
> tool. Next thing I tested was syslogng + phpsyslogng which has the ability
> to show explanations of some messages but uses a local mysql-Database. Now
> I've installed splunk. Splunk seems to have many features so if you know
> that it will fullfill my needs or if you know a better tool please let me
> know.
>
> Background: To complete this project is part of my study and this is my
> first post to the list.
>
> -Stefan
>
>
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