[CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008, 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...

We use swatch to monitor various things, mainly security related.

Bill
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