I've read through a few whitepapers from SANS about centralizing log
files. One way was to install a syslog agent and forward it to a
centralized syslog server. Another was to dump the event log to a file,
and download it to a central box.

Both those papers are not ancient, but also not very recent.

Has anyone used splunk? I figure that would be a big time saver so i
don't have to create my own frontend.

Re: centralized event logging? centralized syslog... dumping event by Joe

Joe
Sat Feb 17 15:51:10 CST 2007

I've never used splunk but I understand it to just be a data miner, it
will still require centralizing the logs.

Once you do that you also can look at logparser from MSFT.

joe

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Unsettled wrote:
> I've read through a few whitepapers from SANS about centralizing log
> files. One way was to install a syslog agent and forward it to a
> centralized syslog server. Another was to dump the event log to a file,
> and download it to a central box.
>
> Both those papers are not ancient, but also not very recent.
>
> Has anyone used splunk? I figure that would be a big time saver so i
> don't have to create my own frontend.