My view on splunk,
+1 if you intend to have a human act on the reports, it does an
excellent job of reducing huge amounts of audit data into the valuable
bits.
-1 Seemed to be a pita to integrate with my scripting enviroment. I
ended up kludging wget,awk and telnet together in a totally undignified
way to make it reach out and act on something.
+2 Customizable ingestion/parsing, I'm feeding everything from linux
audit data to weird proprietary serial output from a multiplexer into
it.
-1 Proprietary database I would have liked to see an sql plugin for
data storage, I would like the data in Mysql/Oracle but no-joy from
splunk so that I can use other tools on it easily.
+1 Free demo. You can download an eval version that is rate limited and
cripples itself after a fixed time.
-1 because The license costs are a bit high if your moving lots of data
through it
Sam Moats
On 2013-08-29 09:10, Jason Biel wrote:
You should look into SPLUNK (http://www.splunk.com/), it will
collect/store
your syslog data and you can run customized reports and then act on
them.
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Kasper Adel <karim.a...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello.
I am looking for a way to do proactive monitoring of my network,
what I am
specifically thinking about is receiving syslog msgs from the
routers and
the backend engine would correlate certain msgs with output/data
that i am
receiving through SSH/telnet sessions. What i am after is not
exposed to
SNMP so i need to do it on my own.
I am sure there are many tools that can do parsing of syslog and
acting
upon it but i wonder if there is something more flexible out there
that I
can just re-use to do the above ? Please point me to known public or
home-grown scripts in use to achieve this.
Regards,
Sam
