Syslog files

[Matthew Carpenter]

Title: Syslog files

As in the case with our recent new SQLSnake friend, is there a good way to count the number of 1433 hits using a syslog file? I can see all of the denied hits, but am curious if you all know of a good way to monitor the # of hits per day and so forth just using a syslog file. Is there a free tool to do that? ReportGen has good stats, but I can not readily see this. TIA