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Network flow log consolidation


From: Kim Cary <Kim.Cary () PEPPERDINE EDU>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:26:53 -0700

We're using nfacctd (packaged with pmacctd) with flowtools to collect/ parse/consolidate our netflow logs. It was a two day learning curve for someone with Unix SysAdmin, SQL & TCP/IP experience to set up.

Kim Cary, Ed.D.
Infrastructure Security Administrator

On Apr 25, 2006, at 9:00 PM, SECURITY automatic digest system wrote:

Tangential to the discussion of syslog parsing, are any others on the
list evaluating or implementing products to consolidate network flow
logs? This would be a precursor to trend analysis and perhaps some
security event correlation processes.

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