Hi, has anyone experimented with logwatch on Solaris? If so what are your opinions. We currently have a script that basically dumps our /var/adm/message file for all our systems. Sometimes we get blank emails because nothing occurred sometimes we are bombarded with bootup messages. I am looking for a way to monitor the logs for suspicious activity such as ssh failed logins and basically system messages such as the disk suite failing or other hardware components failing. Logwatch on Linux is great but does anyone here use it for Solaris?

Hi, keysorsoze

I have no experiences on logwatch. My opinion is as follows.

- For logging ssh activity to /var/adm/messages. Add one line to /etc/syslog.conf and restart syslog daemon, then
test the ssh loggin setting by ssh -l <username> <server_ip>

auth.info /var/adm/messages ==> you also can use one file to log ssh activity only.
Solaris9: /etc/init.d/syslog stop ==> Start
Solaris10: svcadm restart system/system-log

- About disk info, I always checked the following commands. You can man these commands. If disk has some errors, /var/adm/messages
should log disk errors with timestamp. And if you are using disk array, some monitor s/w shold be available for your array.

# format
# iostat -En

- /usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin/prtdiag -v can show you system healthy.

UltraSoul

Your idea is good but I would like a system that will email me daily logs of all my systems and highlight suspicious items such as failed attempts etc. Logwatch on Linux is great I just was wondering if anyone used it for Solaris or if it even is possible. I don't want to manually SSH into each system to look at the /var/adm/messages file for all systems.


Thanks