ASA log viewer

Sun Nov 20 02:19:24 UTC 2011

+1 here i use splunk for sorting out logs pretty cool tool. easy to install.

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Mike Lyon <mike.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Check out Splunk (www.splunk.com)
>
> -mike
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Nov 19, 2011, at 16:51, Duane Toler <detoler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey NANOG!
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> For now, I've been dumping the logs via syslog with TLS using
>> syslog-ng to our server, but that is mediocre at best with varying
>> degrees of reliability.  The syslog-ng server then sends that to a
>> perl script to put that into a database.  That allows us to run our
>> monthly reports, but that doesn't help us with live or historical log
>> parsing and filtering (see above, re: SmartView Tracker).
>>
>> If a customer called to help us troubleshoot connection issues over
>> the past few days, there's no way to review the logs and figure out
>> what happened back then.  Every CCIE we've talked to, and Cisco
>> themselves, seem to not care about firewall traffic logs or the
>> ability to parse and review them.  We know about Cisco Security
>> Center, but that seems incapable of handling logs, etc.  CS-MARS
>> would've been great, but that's overpriced and now discontinued
>> anyway.  We'd hate to spend the time writing our own app if there's a
>> viable product already available (we're willing to pay a reasonable
>> price for one, too).
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks!!
>>
>
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