[CentOS] Log viewing and analysis tools

Tue Aug 28 15:52:20 UTC 2012
Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com>

Need to analyze logs? Have a look at splunk!

http://www.splunk.com/

Not sure why anyone would use anything else to tell the truth. :)

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Joseph Spenner <joseph85750 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> From: David McGuffey <davidmcguffey at verizon.net>
>
> To: centos at centos.org
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 2:51 AM
> Subject: [CentOS] Log viewing and analysis tools
>
> > I have a requirement to allow our security officer to regularly view and
> > analyze the logging and auditing results of one of the machines in our
> > lab.  He comes from the Microsoft Windows world and is not a *nix
> > trained person.
> >
> > I know I can configure logwatch. I can also create a script containing
> > various 'aureport' runs into a cron job.
> >
> > Any recommendations for a GUI-based tool that would be easy for him to
> > learn?
> >
> > Dave M
>
>
> ===
> Dave:
>   I've been using a free solution called LogAnalyzer, and am pretty happy
> with it:
>
> http://loganalyzer.adiscon.com/
>
> It has a web interface, and uses a database to store all the log info.  It
> can be easily accessed, given specific filtered queries, etc.
> Check out the "Online Demo" page to see how it looks.
>
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