On Tuesday 20 September 2005 08:43 am, James Mackinnon wrote:
> Good day everyone
>
> I have 20+ OpenBSD firewalls setup across Canada and I wanted to
> bring the logs to a central server so I can make them web enabled so
> I can view them in a web app
>
> Is there a better technique I should be using for 20+ firewalls
> logging to a central server and then what web app would you recommend
> so I could look at the logs in some type of non-console view
>
> Any suggestions and recommendations would be great as I would like to
> get this right the first time:)
>
I use syslog-ng to set up a log server, with each remote log client
logging to a file correspong to its hostname, and set up Webmin on the
log server. Reading the logs is just a matter of logging into Webmin
and reading any log file I choose.
This has the added bonus that you can read the logs from anywhere -
securely
