Given my experience in Linux is limited currently, what do you guys use to monitor logs such as 'messages' on your centos servers? I had a hardware failure that happened in between me manually looking (of course...). I would hope it might have a some features to email critical issues etc... Thanks! jlc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080107/688440ba/attachment-0003.html>
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote:> > Given my experience in Linux is limited currently, what do you guys > use to monitor logs such as `messages' on your centos servers? I had a > hardware failure that happened in between me manually looking (of > course...). I would hope it might have a some features to email > critical issues etc...We use swatch to monitor various things, mainly security related. Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 Rights is a fictional abstraction. No one has ``Rights'', neither machines nor flesh-and-blood. Persons... have opportunities, not rights, which they use or do not use. -- Lazarus Long
Joseph L. Casale wrote:> > Given my experience in Linux is limited currently, what do you guys > use to monitor logs such as ?messages? on your centos servers? I had a > hardware failure that happened in between me manually looking (of > course?). I would hope it might have a some features to email critical > issues etc? >Depends on if you're monitoring just one server or a bunch. I'd google for these things: LogWatch epylog big syster oak Then there's various things that read syslog and can read reports for you. Google around for things like syslog-ng, nagios, zenoss, whatnot, if you're looking at larger scope. Jed
Joseph L. Casale wrote:> Given my experience in Linux is limited currently, what do you guys use > to monitor logs such as ?messages? on your centos servers? I had a > hardware failure that happened in between me manually looking (of > course?). I would hope it might have a some features to email critical > issues etc?logwatch is a good start. Get the latest version from www.logwatch.org. Runs automatically daily and sends output to root.