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From: Mark Shields <laebshade@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sysloggers
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:33:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <642958cc0906170733o3e83e4a3v58c9c38652ff905b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200906162249.01707.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>

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On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have decent experience with sysloggers other than syslog-ng,
> and
> be willing to share experiences?
>
> I'm especially interested in some of the advanced features of syslog-ng
> Premium from Balabit.com (based on and extending their open source
> version):
>
> SSL-encrypted traffic over the network
> Disk-based buffering on the client
> Windows agents
> Timezone aware (which syslog doesn't do and syslog-ng only partially)
> Encrypted disk files
> Filter, parse and rewrite incoming logs (vital if you need the auth log
> over
> here and the password field stored over there, without jumping through
> hoops
> first)
> High scalability - 2000 Cisco devices and 200+ servers to start,
> distributed
> country wide
>
> --
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
>
syslog-ng is the de facto standard.  Metalog is fine for desktops, but I use
syslog-ng on all my servers.  Nearly all programs that can process log files
are compatible with it.

-- 
- Mark Shields

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-17 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-16 20:49 [gentoo-user] Sysloggers Alan McKinnon
2009-06-17 14:33 ` Mark Shields [this message]
2009-06-17 18:35   ` Dale
2009-06-17 21:31   ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-17 21:48     ` Neil Bothwick
2009-06-17 22:17       ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-17 22:37         ` Mick
2009-06-19 14:11           ` [gentoo-user] Sysloggers Harry Putnam

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