Log Monitoring
Most people are content to passively monitor system logs; they might take a look at log files once a day just to make sure everything looks kosher. If something goes wrong, these administrators fix it after the fact. This approach just won't do for critical system errors such as a file system filling up or an operating system panic; you need to know about these things as soon as they happen.
Fortunately, there are many third-party log-monitoring packages available on the Internet. The following sections discuss one of those packages, logsurfer, which boasts many of the features you should be looking for in log-monitoring software. You also learn how these packages notify system administrators of errors that occur both during and ...
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