Implementing Central Logging Server using syslog-ng
Date:   29th July, 2004
File type : pdf

This document attempts to provide a practical guide for implementing a centralized syslog server at an Enterprise level. The document includes details on porting cross platform logs to a central syslog server, porting messages to a database and real time viewing and querying of the logs.

For enabling the above, different open source products/tools have been chosen, which include -

• Redhat Linux 9.0
• syslog-ng
• Mysql
• Apache
• PHP
• php-syslog-ng

** Though this document has been written for the Linux environment, this document could be followed for installation and configuration on any version of UNIX. The deployment has also been tested on IBM AIX v5.2 platform.