[syslog-ng] new manuals

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 10:51 -0400, Mike wrote:
> The new docs look very nice.
> 
> On this page: 
> http://www.balabit.com/common-dl/syslog-ng-admin-guide_en.html/ch02s03.html
> 
> it makes reference to a syslog-ng agent running on Windows, by saying 
> this:
> 
> "...Microsoft Windows based hosts can run only the syslog-ng agent. The 
> syslog-ng agent operates only in client mode."
> 
> 
> Is there any more information on this? I can't seem to find any. it sounds 
> like a replacement for 'snare', and sounds very interesting.

The Windows agent program is in the deployment phase in one of our local
projects, but is not available generally as of yet. 

It collects eventlog messages and has support for reading traditional
log files (as many Windows applications use flat files instead of
eventlog) and feed them into syslog-ng using TCP and optionally SSL/TLS
encryption.

-- 
Bazsi