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Splunking with VMware and syslog on Linux

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 9, 2008

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]

“Splunk is a popular Linux web application that gives IT
administrators a birds-eye view of their log files, or more
appropriately, a bees-eye view. Not only will it index and chart
log file events in a beautifully rendered web format, but it also
allows administrators to share their logging information with each
other; like the compound eyeball of a bug that renders thousands of
images, the multiplicity of Splunk’s intuitive database of log file
events helps identify problems in a system that are evident in the
log file.

“You can find ways to get VMware logs into Splunk but up until
now, getting VirtualCenter (VC) tasks and events into Splunk has
been difficult…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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