Duane,
you ROCK!! I think you hit the nail on the head. I DO have to bump heads
with my UNIX guy on this. Thanks a million!! You, too, KJ! Either of you
want my lousy $10 Amazon.com prize? I'll send you the code number.
Later...................
Chris Powers
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Hmm -- swatch is a unixy thing. Sounds like you may already have a syslog
server (perhaps even named "loghost"??) running somewhere that is receiving
events from various hosts and logging them. So -- rather than have What's
Up receive the syslog data from other hosts, I assume your desire would be
to have What's Up *send* syslog messages to your existing syslog server.
K.J. is right -- your 'current' setup would allow syslog clients (like any
Unix machine or a Cisco router) to send Syslog messages to your What's UP
server, who whould then simply dump them into a text file on your box.
I *think* what you want is to have what's up send syslog messages to an
existing syslog server, thus enabling your existing log management solution
(swatch) to "see" what's up events. If this is what you want, go to
http://www.ipswitch.com/Support/whatsup/plugins.html and download the
"Syslog notification" plugin that will allow you to send What'sUp
notifications to a syslog server . Then, anything that can read your
syslog, like swatch or TEC, has access to What's Up events.
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I have no $%#@ing clue right now. The boss says that we want to have the
syslog file data pumped into Loghost (???) and then something called Swatch
will divvy up the data and place it into certain "buckets" somewhere from
which we will then be able to generate a report on just the data that we
want. I'm not familiar with the contents of syslog. I suppose it's
different from event log data?? I have no knowledge whatsoever about your
direct question. I figured that all I was supposed to do was save the
syslog data files to a folder on some other machine, from which Loghost and
Swatch (and somebody else) would do the rest. Maybe you can enlighten me
some more about syslog files and the syslog daemon on a remote machine and
the such.
My boss is a CNE and manager of the infrastructure dept for a 10K person
company, so I assume he knows what he's talking about. Sometime soon, I
hope to as well.
Thanks for the response, KJ.!! I can at least pose your question to my
boss and then get a full explanation as to how to capture this syslog data.
Chris Powers
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Hate to ask a stupid question but -- what are you running on the remote
boxes to send syslog data back to the syslog server (your WUG machine). You
have to run a syslog daemon on the remote boxes that sends data back to the
server (WUG) on udp port 514.
At 10:48 PM 8/15/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi, folks.
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>No takers out there on my missing syslog files?? I need them because, due
>to budget constraints on the project and the crumminess of WUG's reporting
>capabilities and the complexity of Crystal Reports for a beginner, my boss
>has opted to use some other in-house method for reporting which requires
>that I capture the syslog data and redirect it to an application on
another
>machine in our network. I'll sweeten the pot by tossing in my $10
>Amazon.com gift certificate that I won last Halloween. Dressed as a woman
>in a ruffly purple dress, full make-up, hosiery, the works! And puffin'
on
>a butt and puttin' it out with my pumps (like Sandy in Grease). For all
>that, I got 1st prize........a measly 10 bucks! Gee, thanks. Barely
>enough to pay for shipping, for crying out loud!!
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>Last call for syslog help. See my inquiry below. Thank you.
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>Chris Powers
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>I went into WUG 6.02 program options and started the syslog service (I
also
>checked off to start service at application start-up). I checked
services
>and see that it is running. I shouldn't have to reboot the machine,
right?
>The logfile is set to update every hour. Also, several times over the
past
>2 hours I chose to "update logfile" immediately. But when I go to view
the
>syslog there is no data in the window and the title bar says there are no
>syslog log files found in the specified directory. What, if anything, did
>I fail to do? Thanks.....................
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