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Re: syslog and network management
From: "Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:59:50 -0600
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 8:06 PM, <david () lang hm> wrote:
> I've found that if you utilize, for instance, syslog-ng, you can split > up the log files based on whatever (device type, network, etc.). > Searching those smaller files is a lot less CPU intensive. true, but I found that syslog-ng was far less effective at the more important job of receiving syslog messages from the wire and writing them to disk
Really? How so? We were logging 6 PIXen as well as many switches and routers (and a much lesser level). We never "noticed" a great loss of messages... I guess I can assume you did, and maybe I could learn from how you did! :) What daemon do you use? _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () listserv icsalabs com https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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