UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

i'll be pulling alerts off my router's IDS, to a solaris 8 machine. i'd like the ability to have a web browsable syslog utility (if any of you have a webramp 700s, think about the log viewer) that will take the information off the router and present it in a nice format.

if it's not too much of a strech. i have an obsd firewall that i'd like to incorporate snort onto. instead of having that device record everything, i'd like to move acid onto this logging machine and be able to view everything from there.

is it possible... is it extremely complicated?

use perl +cgi.

i use perl and cgi to read my ftp logs.

that way i can see what files i pulled/pushed to which client.

There's a nice example of using MySQL/Apache/PHP to view and manage syslog information:

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/feature_story-138.html

Cheers,

Keith

unforutnately, i know nothing about perl, so that write that one off. i know, i know, every admin should know perl and other scripting languages... but any type of language, foriegn included, is beyond me scope.

kduffin, what you've shared is great. exactly what i'm looking for. although, i hope it won't be too much of a hastle to get working on a solaris9 system.