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Date:      Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:43:40 -0500
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Mark Johnston <mjohnston@skyweb.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Aggregating logs from numerous FreeBSD machines
Message-ID:  <41E6C15C.4030907@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <200501131232.44441.mjohnston@skyweb.ca>
References:  <200501131232.44441.mjohnston@skyweb.ca>

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Mark Johnston wrote:
> If I had to imagine an ideal system, it would be a central server that 
> securely collects syslog messages from all my servers, indexes them by server 
> and severity, and gives a reasonable management interface.  Given expressions 
> based on facility, severity, log message, and the like, it could throw away 
> useless messages, or page me for critical ones.  This would tie into 
> AIDE/Samhain/Tripwire (haven't picked one yet) and maybe even different 
> flavors of IDS.  It could even warn me when processes run away with the CPU 
> or RAM, or disks get too full.

Consider Big Brother from www.bb4.com.  It monitors processes, ports, disk 
space, load average, looks for interesting stuff in the system logfile, and 
has a central web-based dashboard with historical logs.

[ Slightly off-topic for freebsd-security, moving to -questions. ]

-- 
-Chuck



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