[CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation

[Jed Reynolds]

Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>
> Given my experience in Linux is limited currently, what do you guys 
> use to monitor logs such as ‘messages’ on your centos servers? I had a 
> hardware failure that happened in between me manually looking (of 
> course…). I would hope it might have a some features to email critical 
> issues etc…
>

Depends on if you're monitoring just one server or a bunch.

I'd google for these things:

LogWatch
epylog
big syster
oak

Then there's various things that read syslog and can read reports for 
you. Google around for things like syslog-ng, nagios, zenoss, whatnot, 
if you're looking at larger scope.

Jed