Parsing Syslog and Acting on it, using other input too

[carlos at race.com (Carlos Alcantar)]

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Carlos Alcantar
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kasper Adel <karim.adel at gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, August 29, 2013 6:03 AM
To: "nanog at nanog.org" <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Parsing Syslog and Acting on it, using other input too

Hello.

I am looking for a way to do proactive monitoring of my network, what I am
specifically thinking about is receiving syslog msgs from the routers and
the backend engine would correlate certain msgs with output/data that i am
receiving through SSH/telnet sessions. What i am after is not exposed to
SNMP so i need to do it on my own.


I am sure there are many tools that can do parsing of syslog and acting
upon it but i wonder if there is something more flexible out there that I
can just re-use to do the above ? Please point me to known public or
home-grown scripts in use to achieve this.

Regards,

Sam