Ø I first started with EvtSys and it worked pretty well but it left out the hostname

Ø so it was hard to make server specific swatch statements. I then tried ntsyslog

Ø which shared the same problem.

This shouldn’t be a problem for Syslog-NG because you can have it do a DNS lookup on the source IP address of a Syslog message to get the hostname, and then use the $FULLHOST_FROM macro in your ‘destination’ directive to log it to a file including the hostname.  Here’s a link that explains more regarding the macros you can use to refine log handling:

http://www.balabit.com/products/syslog_ng/reference-2.0/syslog-ng.html/index.html#macros

If you don’t have DNS in your internal network, you can simply make the IP to hostname correlation in your /etc/hosts file.

I hope this helps,

Justin.

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From: Tom Valdes [mailto:tom.valdes@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 1:06 PM
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
Subject: [syslog-ng] EventViewer to SysLog - looking for opinions

I recently started evaluating tools to convert Windows Event Viewer messages to SysLog and I'm looking for opinions on the different ones and what to look for.

I first started with EvtSys and it worked pretty well but it left out the hostname so it was hard to make server specific swatch statements.
I then tried ntsyslog which shared the same problem.

I'm now trying Snare (thanks Kevin for the tip) and it looks a lot more flexible as to what type of events get sent and it sends the hostname as well.  When I first installed it, it worked fine and send messages.. After fiddling with it, it stopped working correctly.  I'm going to start working with it again, but I'd like to here what else people are using.

The 2 things the tool should have are:
be free and transmit the Hostname.

thanks,
tom