SAGAN(8) System Manager's Manual SAGAN(8)
NAME
sagan - Real-time System & Event Log Monitoring System
SYNOPSIS
sagan [options]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the sagan command.
sagan is a multi-threaded, real time system- and event-log monitoring system, but with a twist. Sagan uses a "Snort" like rule set for
detecting malicious events happening on your network and/or computer systems.
If Sagan detects a potentially bad event, that event can be stored to a Snort database (MySQL/PostgreSQL), send it to a SIEM tool like Pre-
lude, or send an email.
Sagan is meant to be used in a 'centralized' logging environment, but will work fine as part of a standalone Host IDS system for worksta-
tions.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
included below.
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
-d, --debug
Enable debugging
-D, --daemon
Make process a daemon (fork to the background)
-U, --user
Run as user (defaults to 'sagan')
-c, --chroot
Chroot to username 'sagan's home
-f, --config
Sagan configuration file to load
-p, --program
Run Sagan in syslog-ng's 'program' mode
AUTHOR
sagan was written by Champ Clark III <champ@softwink.com>
This manual page was written by Pierre Chifflier <pollux@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).
February 15, 2011 SAGAN(8)
