Necessity of logging
So why do you need logs? Do you at all? Or do you? Chances are you do. It could be easy, as in you'd like to know when someone logged in to a certain device, and then logged out. Easy enough. Maybe there is an incentive to know what this person did during the session? Did the person change anything in your config-files? Any changes to the database? Did this person do a SELECT * FROM anydatabase? Why was user "abc" interested in columns "c_card_nr" and the "cvv" at the same time? Oh well, you need to have logs, you need to know what is going on with your systems. Most systems log, Unix and routers/switches use syslog, in one way or the other, Windows has several different loggings. You can use snare (as an example) for Windows to convert and distribute logs in syslog fashion, to collect events on your syslog server. Your need, once you have decided you have needs, for a log management gadget depends on your needs. What do you need? What requir...