A centralized syslog server was one of the first true SysAdmin tasks that I was given as a Linux Administrator way back in 1997. My boss at the time wanted to pull in log files from various appliances ...

Logging can be incredibly useful but massively annoying to administer. When something goes wrong, logs are crucial to troubleshooting, especially in security-related issues. But if an attacker ...

One of the things I like most about Linux is that everything going on inside it is being logged. Whether a user logs in through ssh or a new visitor is passing through your website, everything is ...

Whatever else you do to secure a Linux system, it must have comprehensive, accurate and carefully watched logs. Logs serve several purposes. First, they help us troubleshoot virtually all kinds of ...

Writing some messages to multiple locations is a pretty normal thing in all UNIX / Linux syslog configurations, so I would just leave it alone. You're not going to gain much of anything for all the ...

Log files on Linux systems contain a LOT of information — more than you'll ever have time to view. Here are some tips on how you can make use of it without ... drowning in it. Managing log files on ...

1. We have planned on implementing SCOM 2007 for a while. 2. We have Envision for PCI systems, but now want to have it contain all events for all servers 3. We also have Linux servers that send ...

The abstract goal of containers is, in effect, to provide a group of processes with the illusion that that they are the only processes on the system. When fully implemented, this feature has the ...