Summary: log file and mail message filtering programs
John Macdonald
jmm at eci386.uucp
Tue Apr 9 00:59:15 AEST 1991
In article <1991Apr1.160108.12136 at nas.nasa.gov> vancleef at nas.nasa.gov (Robert E. Van Cleef) writes:
[ a summary of responses to his request for methods for
automation of log analysis ]
|Here is a summary of the replies. Apparently there is only one tool "watcher"
|freely available and one commercial product "XRSA" ...
[ ... ]
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|Here is the full collection of replies: hope it helps... Bob
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|> From: dick at ccnext.ucsf.edu (Dick Karpinski)
|> Subject: XRSA does just that
|>
|> There is a commercial product from a software house in Canada which
|> does just that sort of thing. It's called eXpert Remote System
|> Administrator and uses possibly some AIish software in the central
|> host to reduce the data coming in to just the part that's most
|> interesting to the human attendants. They seem to want $20k/yr to
|> get into the game, so I'm interested in cheap clones. Many of us
|> human administrators ought to be willing to collaborate on a public
|> access package like that. PERL pops to mind as a useful tool for
|> many of these tasks. I have lotsa stuff from the xrsa folks if
|> that would interest you further. I'd like to pursue this matter
|> to the point of having some tools and a continuing sysadmin mailing
|> list for enhancements etc....
Umm, I hate to look like I'm doing marketing on the net, but Dick's
figure is wrong except maybe in a specific sort of context.
The base price for XRSA is about $2k/yr per system monitored. There
are additional considerations possible (like if you want to license
the entire suite of software and not use an external server it does
get up to a starting price of $20k/yr, but that includes a minimum
of 5 systems being supported).
Robert's summary of replies included mine, so I won't repeat that
info here, but anyone interested can send me email with any specific
questions or for general info.
We agree with Dick that Perl is a useful tool for doing many of the
tasks - we use it in the central analysis portion of XRSA.
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