Re: Looking for some event and security log monitoring software

["Chesmore, Michael [DAS]" <Michael.Chesmore () iowa gov>]

I would advocate for OSSEC.  It is open source extremely easy to configure and can handle massive volumes of logs.  The 
alerting rules are xml based and very easy to tune.  Plus the author hangs out in the OSSEC IRC all the time.  If you 
have a question you can ping him directly.  That is way cool.

We also use SPLUNK and it is great as well, but it can get pretty expensive when you talk about enterprise logging.



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Thomas
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Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Looking for some event and security log monitoring software

The splunk agent footprint is very small and the polling isn't as noisy as you'd expect, I've run the software both 
ways and have no real complaints either way. Really it boils down to what are you comfortable with.

Please excuse typos, I'm on my mobile


On Jul 10, 2012, at 21:39, anthony kasza <anthony.kasza () gmail com> wrote:

> The time between polling is configurable.
> I too prefer agents as it takes the resource burden away from a single 
> machine and provides real time log collection. Installing agents isn't 
> always the best solution, however.
> I've been told that Splunk agents (known as Universal Forwarders) have 
> a minimal resource footprint but I have never used one.
>
> -AK
>
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Champ Clark III <cclark () quadrantsec com> wrote:
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> > On 7/10/12 8:50 PM, anthony kasza wrote:
> > > Conceptually similar to SNMP, but not the same. You configure Splunk 
> > > with a service account. Periodically, Splunk will login to those 
> > > designated systems and collect WMI information. The service account 
> > > needs the proper rights and privileges to read WMI on each system.
> >
> > Thank you.  I was using SNMP-trap in my example,  but that was 
> > incorrect.  SNMP is a better analogy.
> >
> > That's the way I was told WMI,  which I've never used,  worked.  How 
> > often does polling typically take place?  I assume that configurable?
> >
> > I typically don't like systems that have to manually "poll" for logs.
> > Hence the reason I believe loading the agent is better.  However, the 
> > downfall of that is... well... you have to load the agent...  Some 
> > organizations/people don't like that idea either.
> >
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