Tag: syslog

Edited by Marilyn Outerbridge A very cheap and effective way to perform rudimentary packet-header capturing in IOS is to use the log/log-input keyword at the end of an ACE. This is very easily done. This blog will use the following simple topology for the demonstrations. Basic ACL Logging (Default Settings)…

just found out about a great tutorial on designing logging solutions by Marcus Ranum. Marcus has been doing network security work for a long time and is well known in the network security industry. I have previously referenced some of his work in my blog Handling Network Events (syslog and…

The first component of a good network management system is an event handling system. A basic event handling system can be easily implemented with open source tools like Syslog Summary [...]

I was recently checking out a product that does syslog correlation and noticed that it had not reported a couple of events that I could see in syslog-ng’s log. I [...]

I’ve been doing some more reading about network event handling and found some interesting articles and a few facts that I’d like to share.  I have my own ideas about [...]

I just finished posting a neat syslog summary script that was passed to me by Phil Koontz.  He uses it every day to keep track of syslog events. The summary [...]

I’m continuing the list of NMS event handling requirements. Unstable interfaces In the last post, Syslog Summary Script. -Terry _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Re-posted with Permission  NetCraftsmen would like to acknowledge Infoblox for [...]

I’ve been examining the handling of event data and wanted to share what I see as common requirements.  For the next few posts, I’ll describe the requirements and why they [...]

Here is a list of the articles I posted in February to my blog at Netcordia: “Network Management Sucks!!!“ discusses why I think Jimmy Ray Purser, a blogger for Cisco [...]

I’m working on network management requirements for several customers and keep running into the same requirements.  One of the key requirements is that of event reporting.  Events typically take two [...]