Dear syslog-ng users, This is the first issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng related news. Your feedback and news tips about the next issue is welcome at documentation@balabit.com FEATURED NEWS BalaBit has been invited to the CEE Board ----------------------------------------- Common Event Expression (CEE) for Event Interoperability is a US govermental task force aiming to standardize the way computer events are described, logged, and exchanged. A part of CEE will define a generic dictionary for event fields, which will be handy for the syslog-ng patterndb project. More information on CEE: http://cee.mitre.org/about.html Current members of CEE Board: http://cee.mitre.org/board.html Related blog posts: * http://bazsi.blogs.balabit.com/2010/11/patterndb-goes-cee/ * http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2010/11/cee/ FOSDEM - Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting ---------------------------------------------------------- Peter Czanik from the syslog-ng upstream attended the conference to help include the most recent syslog-ng versions into the main distributions. Read his blog post at http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2011/02/fosdem/ Support the syslog-ng project with your testimonial! ---------------------------------------------------- We have launched a public site for collecting user feedbacks and testimonials. Please help us to improve syslog-ng and tell us your opinion (both negative and positive), experience, feature request, or why you use syslog-ng at http://www.balabit.com/testimonials/send OTHER SHORT NEWS * A new syslog-ng driver for the mongodb() NOSQL database is available in 3.3 alpha1: http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/projects/syslog-ng/mongodb/ * systemd support for recent operating systems: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2011-February/015876.html * Debian 6.0 repositories include syslog-ng OSE 3.1: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=syslog-ng&searchon=names&suite=st... NEW RELEASES OF THE SYSLOG-NG PRODUCT FAMILY * syslog-ng OSE 3.3 alpha1 - http://bazsi.blogs.balabit.com/2010/12/threading-epoll-on-3-3-mainline/ * syslog-ng PE 4.0 - http://attila.blogs.balabit.com/2011/02/balabit%e2%80%99s-syslog-ng-premium-... RECENT WHITEPAPERS * Message Classification with syslog-ng (Free download) http://www.balabit.com/whitepapers/log-classification * Performance measurements of syslog-ng Premium Edition 4.0 (Requires registration at balabit.com) http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/syslog-ng-pe-v4.0-whitepaper-pe... * PCI compliance and forensics in auditing remote server access (Free download) http://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/scb-v3.0-whitepaper-pci-complianc...