ASA log viewer

Duane Toler detoler at gmail.com
Sun Nov 20 01:32:15 UTC 2011


On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 20:04, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Duane Toler" <detoler at gmail.com>
>
>> My employer is deploying CIsco ASA firewalls to our clients
>> (specifically the 5505, 5510 for our smaller clients). We are having
>> problems finding a decent log viewer. Several products seem to mean
>> well, but they all fall short for various reasons. We primarily use
>> Check Point firewalls, and for those of you with that experience, you
>> know the SmartViewer Tracker is quite powerful. Is there anything
>> close to the flexibility and filtering capabilities of Check Point's
>> SmartView Tracker?
>
> Is your problem the aggregation proper, or the mining?
>
> Do the ASA's log to syslog?
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> --

Yep, we log to syslog, and the issue is the mining.  Not that I/we
*can't* grep/regex/sed/awk/perl our way thru the log files.  It's just
that it's overly tedious.  Especially when compared to Check Point's
product (given that they are aiming to compete...).




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